Colloidal self-assembly has been investigated as a promising and practical approach for the
fabrication of photonic nanostructures, including colloidal crystals, composite and inverse …

Structural coloration provides a great potential for various applications due to unique optical
properties distinguished from conventional pigment colors. Structural colors are nonfading …

A photonic bandgap in a material arises from periodic modulations in the refractive index of
the material over a length scale that is half the wavelength of the light. Photons having an …

Colloidal photonic crystals possess inimitable optical properties of iridescent structural
colors and unique spectral shape, which render them useful for security materials. This work …

Active tunable plasmonic cap arrays were fabricated on a flexible stretchable substrate
using a combination of colloidal lithography, lift-up soft lithography, and subsequent …

Omniphobic inverse opals are created by structurally and chemically modifying the surface
of inverse opals through reactive ion etching. During the etching, void arrays of the inverse …

Structural colored fiber was fabricated by an isothermal heating evaporation-induced self-
assembly method. Under ambient white light illumination, the fibers appear colored due to …

Structural coloration is promising as an alternative to chemical coloration because it has
characteristics of their high color brightness, no fading, and low toxicity. Here, we report a …

Photonic structures have wide applications in a variety of fields. Self-assembly of building
blocks, including block copolymers, homopolymers, liquid crystals, and colloidal particles …

Polymeric opal microparticles are an important class of emerging engineering materials and
have shown significant potential in a variety of applications ranging from anticounterfeit …