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Annular Structural Colors from Bowl‐Like Shriveled Photonic Microshells of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
Author(s) -
Shan YuWei,
You LuQian,
Bisoyi Hari Krishna,
Yang YuJie,
Ge YaHao,
Che KaiJun,
Li SenSen,
Chen LuJian,
Li Quan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
advanced optical materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.89
H-Index - 91
ISSN - 2195-1071
DOI - 10.1002/adom.202000692
Subject(s) - materials science , fabrication , photonics , structural coloration , microfluidics , optics , optoelectronics , nanotechnology , photonic crystal , physics , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology
Structural colors obtained by self‐organized microstructures have found a variety of applications, such as decorations, displays, and encryption microarrays, and have been widely investigated for the excellent stability and anisotropic optical responses upon external stimuli. Here, the fabrication of a variety of bowl‐like shriveled microshells using helical cholesteric liquid crystals (CLCs) by glass‐capillary‐based microfluidic techniques is reported. Interestingly, the internal and selective Bragg interferences of the radially arranged helical CLC structure enable the color‐correlative optical responses, resulting in the generation of annular color rings with variable reflection wavelengths and geometries by tuning the pitch and adjusting the incubation parameters. In addition, the manipulation of shriveled photonic microshells is demonstrated under a magnetic field. Benefiting from the low‐cost fabrication of optical interference microstructures and the controllable generation of structural color, it is expected that this class of shriveled photonic CLC microshells might pioneer a novel route for future photonic applications and beyond.