New Communication in Adv. Mater.

Post date: Feb 26, 2017 6:00:28 AM

Sang Seok Lee, Hyeon Jin Seo,Yun Ho Kim, and Shin-Hyun Kim, "Structural Color Palettes of Core-Shell Photonic Ink Capsules containing Cholesteric Liquid Crystals", Advanced Materials, accepted for publication (2017).

Photonic microcapsules with onion-like topology are microfluidically designed to have cholesteric liquid crystals with opposite handedness in their core and shell. The microcapsules exhibit structural colours caused by dual photonic bandgaps, resulting in a rich variety of colour on the optical palette. Moreover, the microcapsules can switch the colours from either core or shell depending on the selection of light-handedness.