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  • Nanotechnology
  • Optics

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  • Structural color from colloidal nanoparticles offers fade-resistant coloration but suffers from mechanical fragility and complex patterning.
  • Existing methods for creating patterned structural colors are often intricate and lack robustness.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a robust and scalable strategy for fabricating patterned structural colors.
  • To overcome the limitations of mechanical fragility and complex patterning in current structural color materials.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized zinc sulfide (ZnS)/epoxy resin (EP) composites in a rod-coating process.
  • Employed customized filter-paper templates and localized solvent evaporation programming (LSEP) driven by capillary forces.
  • Spatially modulated coating composition to control refractive-index contrast and color expression via the Bragg principle.

Main Results:

  • Successfully fabricated complex dual-color patterns with high precision and excellent stability.
  • Demonstrated material stability against abrasion, pH changes, and temperature variations.
  • The LSEP approach proved straightforward and environmentally friendly.

Conclusions:

  • The developed LSEP method provides a robust, scalable, and precise way to produce patterned structural color materials.
  • This technique overcomes key limitations of traditional methods, paving the way for applications in displays, anti-counterfeiting, and packaging.