Advanced Materials
Advanced Materials
5 years ago

Bioinspired Heterogeneous Structural Color Stripes from Capillaries

Bioinspired Heterogeneous Structural Color Stripes from Capillaries
Huan Wang, Luoran Shang, Zhongze Gu, Yuanjin Zhao, Yunru Yu, Fanfan Fu, Ze Zhao
As an important characteristic of many creatures, structural colors play a crucial role in the survival of organisms. Inspired by these features, an intelligent structural color material with a heterogeneous striped pattern and stimuli-responsivity by fast self-assembly of colloidal nanoparticles in capillaries with a certain diameter range are presented here. The width, spacing, color, and even combination of the structural color stripe patterns can be precisely tailored by adjusting the self-assembly parameters. Attractively, with the integration of a near-infrared (NIR) light responsive graphene hydrogel into the structural color stripe pattern, the materials are endowed with light-controlled reversible bending behavior with self-reporting color indication. It is demonstrated that the striped structural color materials can be used as NIR-light-triggered dynamic barcode labels for the anti-counterfeiting of different products. These features of the bioinspired structural color stripe pattern materials indicate their potential values for mimicking structural color organisms, which will find important applications in constructing intelligent sensors, anti-counterfeiting devices, and so on. Bioinspired structural color stripes with tailorable width, spacing, color, and even combination of the colored patterns are generated by assembling colloidal nanoparticles in capillaries. With the integration of a graphene hydrogel, the materials are endowed with NIR-light-controlled reversible bending behavior with self-reporting color indication, which also show a great potential anti-counterfeiting application as NIR-light-triggered dynamic barcode labels.

Publisher URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi

DOI: 10.1002/adma.201704569

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