This Review summarizes recent developments in the field of responsive photonic crystal
structures, including principles for design and fabrication and many strategies for …

Nature has mastered the construction of nanostructures with well-defined macroscopic
effects and purposes. Structural colouration is a visible consequence of the particular …

An overview on the properties and applications of polymer and inorganic planar 1D photonic
crystals fabricated from solution is provided here. In the last decades, photonic crystals …

Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) polymerization utilizes the delivery of vapor‐phase
monomers to form chemically well‐defined polymeric films directly on the surface of a …

Oxide nanomaterials are indispensable for nanotechnological innovations, because they
combine an infinite variety of structural motifs and properties with manifold morphological …

Organic–inorganic nanocomposites with high refractive index (RI) are typically constructed
by integrating high RI inorganic nanoscale building blocks into a processable, transparent …

Structural color materials have existed in nature for millions of years. Natural polymers
constitute biological structural colors and provide an excellent resource for fabricating …

Abstract Well‐adhered, conformal, thin (< 100 nm) coatings can easily be obtained by
chemical vapor deposition (CVD) for a variety of technological applications. Room …

The engineering of optical and acoustic material functionalities via construction of ordered
local and global architectures on various length scales commensurate with and well below …

Surface amelioration by hybrid spatial architectures can be attractive for scientific
applications in electrochemistry and environmental science; however, reports of …