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Area of Science:

  • Materials Science
  • Nanotechnology
  • Optics

Background:

  • Structural colors offer advantages like high saturation and fade resistance over chemical colorants.
  • Current structural color surfaces lack tunability and are difficult to reprocess after formation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a high-throughput fabrication method for tunable structural color films.
  • To enable arbitrary color adjustments in structural color surfaces.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized spray-assisted self-assembly of anisotropic 2D MXene nanosheets.
  • Formed Fabry-Perot resonance cavities on predesigned substrates.
  • Optimized ink formulation and spraying conditions for color control.

Main Results:

  • Achieved real-time, large-scale in situ color modifications with hue variations up to 360° in 70 seconds.
  • Generated a broad color palette within the CIELAB color space, rivaling commercial printing.
  • Demonstrated applications from micro-scale patterns to meter-scale films.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed method offers a flexible and customizable platform for structural color generation.
  • Spray-assisted self-assembly of MXene nanosheets provides a viable route for advanced structural color applications.
  • This technique overcomes the limitations of fixed colors in traditional structural materials.