The healthcare system has a drastic paradigm shift from centralized care to home‐based
and self‐monitoring strategies; aiming to reach more individuals, minimize workload in …

The beauty of opals results from a densely packed, highly ordered arrangement of silica
spheres with a diameter of several hundred nanometers. Such ordered nanostructures are …

Whereas considerable interest exists in self-assembly of well-ordered, porous “inverse opal”
structures for optical, electronic, and (bio) chemical applications, uncontrolled defect …

Opaline Photonic Crystals: How Does Self-Assembly Work? Page 1 Opaline Photonic Crystals:
How Does Self-Assembly Work? See: DJ Norris, EG Arlinghaus, L. Meng, R. Heiny, LE Scriven …

A variety of methods have been successfully used to produce crystals of colloidal particles
made of polymeric (or silica) microspheres. Achieving highly accurate growth and control of …

Three-dimensionally ordered macroporous (3DOM) vanadium pentoxide (V2O5) films with
various pore diameters were prepared by anodic deposition into colloidal crystal templates …

Electrochromic performance of tungsten oxide (WO3) has attracted extensive interest due to
its applications in smart windows, spacecraft thermal control and other optical devices. Here …

As a colloidal dispersion is coated and dried on a nonporous rigid substrate, the enormous
stresses developing during the drying process can fracture the thin film. The drying-induced …

The global race for the optically integrated photonic chip is driven by the prospective that
miniaturization of optical devices and enhanced chip functionality may revolutionize the …

Unlike crystalline atomic and ionic solids, texture development due to crystallographically
preferred growth in colloidal crystals is less studied. Here we investigate the underlying …