Stimuli-responsive polydopamine-based smart materials

P Yang, F Zhu, Z Zhang, Y Cheng, Z Wang… - Chemical Society …, 2021‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Stimuli responsiveness has long been a fascinating feature of smart material design.
Polydopamine (PDA), a nature inspired polymeric pigment, exhibits excellent photo …

Bio-inspired photonic crystal patterns

P Wu, J Wang, L Jiang - Materials Horizons, 2020‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Biological photonic crystal (PC) patterns provide unique functionalities for the survival of
creatures, such as the static identified patterns of butterfly wings, the mating function of the …

[HTML][HTML] Solvatochromic discrimination of alcoholic solvents by structural colors of polydopamine nanoparticle thin films

YS Lim, JS Kim, JH Choi, JM Kim, TS Shim - Colloid and Interface Science …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Structural color materials are promising sensory materials that exhibit a stable and stimuli
responsive reflection color. To fully utilize their optical property as colorimetric sensors, a …

Bio-inspired intelligent structural color materials

L Shang, W Zhang, K Xu, Y Zhao - Materials Horizons, 2019‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Bioinspired structural color materials represent a curiosity-led, technology-driven field with
multidisciplinary research studies aiming at mimicking and recapitulating natural coloration …

Wearable nanocomposite hydrogel temperature sensor based on thermally-switchable and mechanical-deformation-insensitive structural colors

J Wang, Y Sun, P Jia, J Su, X Zhang, N Wu, H Yu… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Smart and flexible nanocomposite materials with structural colors have great potentials in
the field of wearable sensors. However, the mechanochromic property of conventional …

Color construction of multi-colored carbon fibers using glucose

S Zhou, C Zhang, Z Fu, Q Zhu, Z Zhou, J Gong… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Carbon fibers (CFs) have attracted attention in the automotive, aviation, and aerospace
industries. However, the coloration of CFs is challenging due to their brittleness, inertness …

Construction of a mesoporous polydopamine@ GO/cellulose nanofibril composite hydrogel with an encapsulation structure for controllable drug release and toxicity …

Y Liu, Q Fan, Y Huo, C Liu, B Li, Y Li - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
The development of intelligent and multifunctional hydrogels having photothermal
properties, good mechanical properties, sustained drug release abilities with low burst …

Bioinspired melanin‐based optically active materials

M **ao, MD Shawkey… - Advanced Optical …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Melanin is a widespread multifunctional biological pigment that has emerged as a promising
platform for applications in coating, catalysis, energy, drug delivery, and medical therapy …

Colloidal photonic inks for mechanochromic films and patterns with structural colors of high saturation

GH Lee, SH Han, JB Kim, JH Kim, JM Lee… - Chemistry of …, 2019‏ - ACS Publications
Colloidal arrays show structural colors through wavelength-selective diffraction. The
structural colors are dynamically tunable with mechanical deformation for a non-close …

Outfitting next generation displays with optical metasurfaces

I Kim, G Yoon, J Jang, P Genevet, KT Nam… - ACS photonics, 2018‏ - ACS Publications
Optical metasurfaces, composed of ultrathin subwavelength meta-atoms, have enabled flat-
optics and corresponding flat optical components such as ultrathin lenses, color filters, and …