scholarly journals Structural Colors: Self-Assembled Coffee-Ring Colloidal Crystals for Structurally Colored Contact Lenses (Small 8/2015)

Small ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 889-889 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhuoying Xie ◽  
Linliang Li ◽  
Panmiao Liu ◽  
Fuyin Zheng ◽  
Liuyang Guo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Contact Lenses ◽  
Colloidal Crystals ◽  
Structural Colors ◽  
Coffee Ring ◽  
Self Assembled

Self-Assembled Coffee-Ring Colloidal Crystals for Structurally Colored Contact Lenses

Small ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 926-930 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhuoying Xie ◽  
Linliang Li ◽  
Panmiao Liu ◽  
Fuyin Zheng ◽  
Liuyang Guo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Contact Lenses ◽  
Colloidal Crystals ◽  
Coffee Ring ◽  
Self Assembled

Effect of Particles of Irregular Size on the Microstructure and Structural Color of Self-Assembled Colloidal Crystals

Langmuir ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tianyu Liu ◽  
Bryan VanSaders ◽  
Jacob T. Keating ◽  
Sharon C. Glotzer ◽  
Michael J. Solomon
Keyword(s):  
Colloidal Crystals ◽  
Structural Color ◽  
Self Assembled

Colloidal crystals self-assembled on the end face of fiber: Fabrication and characterizations

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 324-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haitao Yan ◽  
Ming Wang ◽  
YiXian Ge ◽  
Ping Yu
Keyword(s):  
Colloidal Crystals ◽  
Fiber Fabrication ◽  
Self Assembled

Crucial Impact of Hydrophilicity on the Self-Assembled 2D Colloidal Crystals Using Langmuir–Blodgett Method

Langmuir ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (34) ◽  
pp. 10061-10068
Author(s):  
Heping Wu ◽  
Gang Niu ◽  
Wei Ren ◽  
Luyue Jiang ◽  
Owen Liang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Colloidal Crystals ◽  
The Self ◽  
Langmuir Blodgett ◽  
Self Assembled

scholarly journals Self-Assembly of Ternary Particles for Tough Colloidal Crystals with Vivid Structure Colors

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Binfu Bao ◽  
Duo Liu ◽  
Youyou Yang ◽  
Zhehong Shen ◽  
Bo You
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Black ◽  
Self Assembly ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Colloidal Crystals ◽  
The Self ◽  
Natural Conditions ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Structural Colors ◽  
Crystal Films ◽  
Nanosilica Particles

Self-assembly of colloidal spheres is the most frequently used method for structural colors, but the chroma of the structural colors is usually so low that people cannot observe it under natural conditions. This paper presents a facile method for fabrications of vivid structural colors by doping carbon black into the self-assembly of colloidal polymer spheres and nanosilica particles. This approach can generate very gorgeous structural colors which can be very easily seen under natural conditions. The fabrication conditions for the self-assembly of composite dispersions of polymer/silica/carbon black were optimized to obtain colloidal crystals with vivid colors. Thus, robust mechanical properties, large-scale, and brilliant structural colors can guarantee the obtained crystal films to find practical applications, which are demonstrated by the fact that the successful applications of structural colors beautify the original simple and tedious surface of bamboo strand board (BSB).

scholarly journals Relevance of packing to colloidal self-assembly

2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (7) ◽  
pp. 1439-1444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rose K. Cersonsky ◽  
Greg van Anders ◽  
Paul M. Dodd ◽  
Sharon C. Glotzer
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Structures ◽  
Self Assembly ◽  
Colloidal Crystals ◽  
Causal Mechanism ◽  
Hard Particle ◽  
Self Assembled ◽  
Particle Shapes ◽  
The Ideal

Since the 1920s, packing arguments have been used to rationalize crystal structures in systems ranging from atomic mixtures to colloidal crystals. Packing arguments have recently been applied to complex nanoparticle structures, where they often, but not always, work. We examine when, if ever, packing is a causal mechanism in hard particle approximations of colloidal crystals. We investigate three crystal structures composed of their ideal packing shapes. We show that, contrary to expectations, the ordering mechanism cannot be packing, even when the thermodynamically self-assembled structure is the same as that of the densest packing. We also show that the best particle shapes for hard particle colloidal crystals at any finite pressure are imperfect versions of the ideal packing shape.

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