Nanostructure-free crescent-shaped microparticles as full-color reflective pigments

Yi Yang; Jong Bin Kim; Seong Kyeong Nam; Mengmeng Zhang; Jiangping Xu; Jintao Zhu; Shin-Hyun Kim

doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36482-4

Nature Communications (Feb 2023)

Nanostructure-free crescent-shaped microparticles as full-color reflective pigments

Yi Yang,
Jong Bin Kim,
Seong Kyeong Nam,
Mengmeng Zhang,
Jiangping Xu,
Jintao Zhu,
Shin-Hyun Kim

Affiliations

Yi Yang: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Jong Bin Kim: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Seong Kyeong Nam: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Mengmeng Zhang: Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)
Jiangping Xu: Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)
Jintao Zhu: Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)
Shin-Hyun Kim: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36482-4
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

Read online

Structural colors arise from nanostructures or special microgeometries. Here, the authors report on crescent-shaped microparticles as full-color reflective pigments that show brilliant colors in directional light and are transparent in ambient light.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

About the journal