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Area of Science:

  • Materials Science
  • Nanotechnology
  • Photonics

Background:

  • Responsive photonic crystals (RPCs) offer tunable structural colors for displays, sensors, and anticounterfeiting.
  • Developing multiresponsive photonic crystal (MRPC) films with versatile optical properties is challenging due to complex synthesis and assembly.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To create a facile method for synthesizing multiresponsive photonic crystal (MRPC) films.
  • To demonstrate the tunable structural color and multi-stimuli responsiveness of the developed MRPC films.

Main Methods:

  • Synthesized soft nanospheres with hydrophobic cores and responsive hydrophilic shells via one-step surfactant-free emulsion polymerization.
  • Prepared MRPC patterns by depositing nanosphere emulsions onto 3D-printed substrates, followed by room-temperature drying.
  • Investigated the reversible structural color change attributed to refractive index shifts in hydrophilic shells during wetting/drying.

Main Results:

  • Achieved transparent MRPC film patterns with brilliant structural color in a wet state, which disappeared upon drying.
  • Demonstrated reversible color changes based on wetting/drying states.
  • Showcased rapid, reversible responses to temperature, pH, and organic solvents.
  • Successfully created multichannel encrypted security labels using the MRPC patterns.

Conclusions:

  • A facile and feasible approach for producing MRPC patterns was established.
  • The developed MRPC films exhibit versatile optical properties and multi-stimuli responsiveness.
  • This method holds potential for systematic design and large-scale production of MRPC patterns for diverse applications.