Clickable Colloidal Photonic Crystals for Structural Color Pattern

Langmuir. 2018 Nov 6;34(44):13219-13224. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b00996. Epub 2018 Oct 29.

Abstract

Patterning colloidal photonic crystals have broad important applications in optical devices, functional coatings, full color displays, and colorimetric sensors. In this paper, a clickable colloidal photonic crystal using vinyl-modified sub-micrometer silica particles as building blocks was proposed to pattern photonic crystals. By click chemistry, different chemical groups were simply grafted to the clickable photonic crystals film and obtained wettability-encoded structure color patterns. The clickable photonic crystals provide a simple, controllable, and rapid path to pattern photonic crystals.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't