Owing to their immense potential in energy conversion and storage, catalysis,
photocatalysis, adsorption, separation and life science applications, significant interest has …

Gold is a precious metal with a characteristic bright and beautiful hue known as the golden
yellow color.(1) As of 2012, a total of 174,100 tons of Au has been mined in human history …

Natural structural color materials, especially those that can undergo reversible changes, are
attracting increasing interest in a wide variety of research fields. Inspired by the natural …

In this tutorial review we highlight fundamental aspects of the physics underpinning the
science of photonic crystals, provide insight into building-block assembly routes to the …

The field of plasmonics has become one of the most interesting and active research areas in
nanotechnology, enabling numerous fundamental studies and applications in a variety of …

Templating with colloidal crystals composed of monodisperse spheres is a convenient
chemical method to obtain porous materials with well-ordered periodicity and …

Nanoporous metals, a representative type of nanostructured material, possess intriguing
properties to generate enormously promising potentials for various important applications. In …

As the main contributor of the formation of particulate matter as well as ozone, volatile
organic compounds (VOCs) greatly affect human health and the environmental quality …

This article presents an overview of current research activities that center on monodispersed
colloidal spheres whose diameter falls anywhere in the range of 10 nm to 1 μm. It is …

The term 'photonics' describes a technology whereby data transmission and processing
occurs largely or entirely by means of photons. Photonic crystals are microstructured …