From colloidal particles to photonic crystals: advances in self-assembly and their emerging applications

Z Cai, Z Li, S Ravaine, M He, Y Song, Y Yin… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the last three decades, photonic crystals (PhCs) have attracted intense interests thanks
to their broad potential applications in optics and photonics. Generally, these structures can …

Recent advances in photonic crystal-based sensors

T Li, G Liu, H Kong, G Yang, G Wei, X Zhou - Coordination Chemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
Photonic crystal (PC) is an emerging optical microstructure material with adjustable
dielectric constant, which can vary with its space periodically. It has exhibited excellent …

Flexible microfluidic nanoplasmonic sensors for refreshable and portable recognition of sweat biochemical fingerprint

X He, C Fan, Y Luo, T Xu, X Zhang - npj Flexible Electronics, 2022 - nature.com
Wearable sweat sensors with various sensing systems can provide noninvasive medical
diagnostics and healthcare monitoring. Here, we demonstrate a wearable microfluidic …

Advances in colloidal assembly: the design of structure and hierarchy in two and three dimensions

N Vogel, M Retsch, CA Fustin, A Del Campo… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The colloidal domain is characterized by the dimensions of its constituents in the range from
several nanometers to micrometers. Often, these individual entities are organized in …

Toxic effects of microplastics in plants depend more by their surface functional groups than just accumulation contents

Z Xu, Y Zhang, L Lin, L Wang, W Sun, C Liu… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Differentially charged microplastics (MPs) engendered by plastic aging (eg, plastic film)
widely existed in the agricultural ecosystem, yet minimal was known about the toxic effects of …

[PDF][PDF] A hierarchically ordered array of silver-nanorod bundles for surface-enhanced Raman scattering detection of phenolic pollutants

C Zhu, G Meng, P Zheng, Q Huang, Z Li, X Hu… - Adv. Mater, 2016 - researchgate.net
Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is one of the most promising analytical
techniques due to its fingerprint-identification feature.[1-5] Since regular Raman scattering is …

Artificial opal photonic crystals and inverse opal structures–fundamentals and applications from optics to energy storage

E Armstrong, C O'Dwyer - Journal of materials chemistry C, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Photonic crystals (PhCs) influence the propagation of light by their periodic variation in
dielectric contrast or refractive index. This review outlines the attractive optical qualities …

Hierarchically porous Cu/Zn bimetallic catalysts for highly selective CO2 electroreduction to liquid C2 products

X Su, Y Sun, L **, L Zhang, Y Yang, P Kerns… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2020 - Elsevier
Hierarchically macroporous-mesoporous (HMMP) Cu/Zn alloy catalysts are reported to
promote CO 2 electroreduction towards liquid C 2 products. HMMP Cu/Zn alloys with two …

Approaches to self-assembly of colloidal monolayers: A guide for nanotechnologists

V Lotito, T Zambelli - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2017 - Elsevier
Self-assembly of quasi-spherical colloidal particles in two-dimensional (2D) arrangements is
essential for a wide range of applications from optoelectronics to surface engineering, from …

Unconventional-phase crystalline materials constructed from multiscale building blocks

J Liu, J Huang, W Niu, C Tan, H Zhang - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Crystal phase, an intrinsic characteristic of crystalline materials, is one of the key parameters
to determine their physicochemical properties. Recently, great progress has been made in …