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 crystals (PCs) have been extensively investigated since they can be
prepared in an efficient and low-cost way. Different from the conventional PCs with highly …

Melanin, especially integumentary melanin, interacts in numerous ways with
electromagnetic radiation, leading to a set of critical functions, including radiation protection …

Photonic crystals, characterized by their periodic structures, have been extensively studied
for their ability to manipulate light. Typically, the development of 2D photonic crystals …

Structural color is a color derived from optical interaction between light and a microstructure
and is often seen in nature. Natural melanin plays an important role in bright structural …

Many biological species combine the helical organization of cellulose or chitin microfibrils
with broadband light absorption of black melanin to produce brilliant structural colors with …

Melanin, a black component of human hair, plays an important role in bright structural
colorations in nature. For example, the beautiful and highly visible colorations of peacock …

Yolk–shell particles consist of a hollow shell enclosing a mobile inner particle. Colloidal
crystals made from yolk–shell particles are a unique structure, in which the disorder of highly …

Narrowly dispersed, 10 micron-sized, liquid crystalline elastomer polymer actuators were
first prepared via thiol–ene dispersion polymerization and then embedded and stretched in …

Cubic liquid marbles (LMs) were fabricated by using various epoxy monomers as internal
liquids and millimeter-sized polymer plates as stabilizers. Successively, cubic polymer …