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RESEARCH
Volume 2022, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.34133/2022/9838071
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- NSFZJ for Distinguished Young Scholars [LR16B010002]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21673160, 51920105004, 11574058, 21671067, 22172054, 21972046]
- Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Materials and Energy Storage Devices [201905010002]
- Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province [2019A1515011563]
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A new strategy is presented to reconfigure self-recordable photonic crystal (PC) patterns by printing local patterns into chameleon-inspired PC papers using phase change material (PCM) as ink and erasing the patterns in ethanol. This method allows for efficient and repeated reconfiguration of multicolor and high-resolution patterns, and also demonstrates the mechanochromic characteristics of photonic patterns based on the PC paper and PCM combinations.
Photonic crystal (PC) patterns have shown wide applications in optical devices, information encryption, anticounterfeiting, etc. Unfortunately, it is still a great challenge to reconfigure the PC patterns once fabricated. Herein, a new strategy is presented to reconfigure self-recordable PC patterns by printing local patterns into the chameleon-inspired PC papers using the phase change material (PCM) as ink and then erasing the patterns in ethanol. Multicolor and high-resolution (25 and 75 mu m for dot and lines, respectively) patterns can be efficiently and repeatedly reconfigured. In addition, the photonic patterns based on the PC paper and PCM combinations are gifted with mechanochromic characteristics and can show programmable and reversible color change under pressure. The high melting point of the ink, nonclosely packed structures of the PC paper, and the similar solubility parameter of PC paper, PCM, and ethanol are the keys for all these characteristics. This work offers a simple, flexible, efficient way to reconfigure PC patterns with mechanochromic properties and could open up exciting applications for novel hand-operation-based anticounterfeiting and optical devices.
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