Through 3.7 billion years of evolution and natural selection, plants and animals in nature
have ingeniously fulfilled a broad range of fascinating functions to achieve optimized …

The colors of photonic crystals are based on their periodic crystalline structure. They show
clear advantages over conventional chromophores for many applications, mainly due to …

Structural color hydrogels are promising candidates as scaffold materials for tissue
engineering and for matrix cell culture and manipulation, while their super‐elastic features …

Iridescent and metallic structural colors originating from 3D photonic crystals (3DPCs) based
on Bragg's law of diffraction have attracted considerable attention in recent years. The …

In this review, we summarize the latest developments in research specifically derived from
the unique properties of hollow microspheres, in particular, hollow silica spheres with …

Over the past years, photonic crystals (PCs) with a periodically ordered nanostructure have
attracted great attention due to their potential as advanced optical materials for structural …

Photonic crystals (PCs) as eco-friendly structural coloring materials have great application
potential in the textile coloration. However, the difficulties in scale production of structurally …

Biologically inspired structural color hydrogels with magnetic-and photothermal-controlled
self-healable abilities were fabricated by integrating magnetic-responsive photonic crystals …

Functional materials with specific wettability surfaces are valuable for many areas. Extensive
applications for superwettbility have led to demand for integrating devices with flexible and …

In recent years, the application of low-refractive-index materials in the optical field has
attracted considerable attention due to it high transmittance and high optical sensitivity. In …