Themed Issue on The Chemistry of Photonic Crystals and Metamaterials

Photonic crystals attract tremendous interest due to their ability to manipulate light.  The Chemistry of Photonic Crystals and Metamaterials provides discussion on several effective fabrication techniques for 2D and 3D colloidal photonic crystals as well as many other topics in this fast developing field.

Guest editors Yadong Yin and Jianping Ge introduce the issue in their editorial. The full issue can be found here.

Below is a sample of the Papers, Highlights, Communications and Feature Articles that can be found in The Chemistry of Photonic Crystals and Metamaterials themed issue:

Feature Articles

Stimuli-responsive opals: colloidal crystals and colloidal amorphous arrays for use in functional structurally colored materials
Yukikazu Takeoka

Magnetically controllable colloidal photonic crystals: unique features and intriguing applications
Haibo Hu, Changle Chen and Qianwang Chen

Highlight Articles

Active lasing from organic colloidal photonic crystals
Seiichi Furumi

Communications

Linear thermosensitivity of gel-immobilized tunable colloidal photonic crystals
Hitomi Sugiyama, Tsutomu Sawada, Hiroki Yano and Toshimitsu Kanai

Papers

Maleimide-containing polymer inverse opals: a new kind of reactive photonic structure with significant extendibility
Haowei Yang, Xuesong Li, Yue Lan, Tian Tian, Jiecheng Cui, Tao Zhu, Dezhong Shen and Guangtao Li

Polydopamine-based photonic crystal structures
Yin Jiang, Yue Lan, Xianpeng Yin, Haowei Yang, Jiecheng Cui, Tao Zhu and Guangtao Li

Magnetically rewritable photonic ink based on superparamagnetic nanochains
Mingsheng Wang, Le He, Yongxing Hu and Yadong Yin

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