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Polymer opal with brilliant structural color under natural light and white environment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2015

Bingtao Tang ,
Yuanji Xu ,
Tao Lin  and
Shufen Zhang
Bingtao Tang*
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, People's Republic of China
Yuanji Xu
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, People's Republic of China
Tao Lin
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, People's Republic of China
Shufen Zhang
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, People's Republic of China
*
a)Address all correspondence to this author. e-mail: tangbt@dlut.edu.cn
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Abstract

The structural color films with enough brilliant color have attracted a special attention because of the great advantages in some practical application, which has currently become a research hot-spot. But their simple fabrication is still a great challenge. This study presents brilliant polymer opal structural color films (PSCFs) from polystyrene spheres under natural light by using a simple preparation and assembly strategy. In this strategy, the black organic dye water solution was used as the dispersion medium for polystyrene spheres, and then polystyrene spheres were rapidly fabricated to one ordered structures by the thermal assistance self-assembly method, which is cheap and commonly available. Contrast to other many structural color films irradiated by external light source under black background, the PSCFs exhibit brilliant and tunable structural colors under natural light even in a white environment, which is significant for the potential application of PSCFs in paint, photonic paper, external decoration of architectures, display, and bioassay.

Keywords

structural colorpolystyreneblack dye
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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 30 , Issue 20 , 28 October 2015 , pp. 3134 - 3141
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2015 

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