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Yao Meng1, Jinjing Qiu1, Suli Wu1

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals , Dalian University of Technology , P.O. Box 89, West Campus, 2# Linggong Rd , Dalian 116024 , China.

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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Keywords:
anticounterfeitingbilayer inverse structurecolloidal crystalheterostructurequasiamorphous arraystructural color

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