Issue 5, 2019

Bio-inspired intelligent structural color materials

Abstract

Bioinspired structural color materials represent a curiosity-led, technology-driven field with multidisciplinary research studies aiming at mimicking and recapitulating natural coloration and functions. Over the past several decades, great achievements have been made, including natural structural coloration mechanisms, fabrication of artificial structural color materials, and their applications in extensive areas. In very recent years, research has been propelled forward towards making structural color materials intelligent by incorporating fascinating functions such as self-healing, autonomous regulation, shape memory, etc. These accomplishments create a great leap for structural color materials being applied in real-life scenarios and devices such as in anti-counterfeiting, displays, sensors, soft robots, wearable electronics, organ-on-a-chip platforms, etc.

Graphical abstract: Bio-inspired intelligent structural color materials

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Article information

Article type
Minireview
Submitted
18 Gen. 2019
Accepted
18 Cʼhwe. 2019
First published
18 Cʼhwe. 2019

Mater. Horiz., 2019,6, 945-958

Bio-inspired intelligent structural color materials

L. Shang, W. Zhang, K. Xu and Y. Zhao, Mater. Horiz., 2019, 6, 945 DOI: 10.1039/C9MH00101H

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