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Fabrication of Ultra-thin Color Films with Highly Absorbing Media Using Oblique Angle Deposition
Published on: August 29, 2017
Controllable preparation and orientation-dependent retroreflective structural color properties of anisotropic
Qingyao Liu1, Chuan Wang1, Zelin Tao1
1School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo, Shandong, 255049, China. wch@sdut.edu.cn.
Abstract:
Here, we have developed a method that utilizes deformed inverse opal templates to adjust the morphology of the building blocks and leverage their confinement effects for the in situ preparation and simultaneous assembly of monodisperse anisotropic colloidal particles. Based on the anisotropy of the building blocks, we have conducted the first study on the orientation-dependent retroreflective structural color of anisotropic colloidal photonic crystals (ACPCs).

