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Structural color three-dimensional printing by shrinking photonic crystals
The coloration of some butterflies, Pachyrhynchus weevils, and many chameleons are notable examples of natural organisms employing photonic crystals to produce colorful patterns. Despite advances in nanotechnology, we still lack the ability to print arbitrary colors and shapes in all three dimension...
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author | Liu, Yejing Wang, Hao Ho, Jinfa Ng, Ryan C. Ng, Ray J. H. Hall-Chen, Valerian H. Koay, Eleen H. H. Dong, Zhaogang Liu, Hailong Qiu, Cheng-Wei Greer, Julia R. Yang, Joel K. W. |
author_facet | Liu, Yejing Wang, Hao Ho, Jinfa Ng, Ryan C. Ng, Ray J. H. Hall-Chen, Valerian H. Koay, Eleen H. H. Dong, Zhaogang Liu, Hailong Qiu, Cheng-Wei Greer, Julia R. Yang, Joel K. W. |
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description | The coloration of some butterflies, Pachyrhynchus weevils, and many chameleons are notable examples of natural organisms employing photonic crystals to produce colorful patterns. Despite advances in nanotechnology, we still lack the ability to print arbitrary colors and shapes in all three dimensions at this microscopic length scale. Here, we introduce a heat-shrinking method to produce 3D-printed photonic crystals with a 5x reduction in lattice constants, achieving sub-100-nm features with a full range of colors. With these lattice structures as 3D color volumetric elements, we printed 3D microscopic scale objects, including the first multi-color microscopic model of the Eiffel Tower measuring only 39 µm tall with a color pixel size of 1.45 µm. The technology to print 3D structures in color at the microscopic scale promises the direct patterning and integration of spectrally selective devices, such as photonic crystal-based color filters, onto free-form optical elements and curved surfaces. |
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spelling | pubmed-67611892019-09-27 Structural color three-dimensional printing by shrinking photonic crystals Liu, Yejing Wang, Hao Ho, Jinfa Ng, Ryan C. Ng, Ray J. H. Hall-Chen, Valerian H. Koay, Eleen H. H. Dong, Zhaogang Liu, Hailong Qiu, Cheng-Wei Greer, Julia R. Yang, Joel K. W. Nat Commun Article The coloration of some butterflies, Pachyrhynchus weevils, and many chameleons are notable examples of natural organisms employing photonic crystals to produce colorful patterns. Despite advances in nanotechnology, we still lack the ability to print arbitrary colors and shapes in all three dimensions at this microscopic length scale. Here, we introduce a heat-shrinking method to produce 3D-printed photonic crystals with a 5x reduction in lattice constants, achieving sub-100-nm features with a full range of colors. With these lattice structures as 3D color volumetric elements, we printed 3D microscopic scale objects, including the first multi-color microscopic model of the Eiffel Tower measuring only 39 µm tall with a color pixel size of 1.45 µm. The technology to print 3D structures in color at the microscopic scale promises the direct patterning and integration of spectrally selective devices, such as photonic crystal-based color filters, onto free-form optical elements and curved surfaces. Nature Publishing Group UK 2019-09-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6761189/ /pubmed/31554803 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12360-w Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Liu, Yejing Wang, Hao Ho, Jinfa Ng, Ryan C. Ng, Ray J. H. Hall-Chen, Valerian H. Koay, Eleen H. H. Dong, Zhaogang Liu, Hailong Qiu, Cheng-Wei Greer, Julia R. Yang, Joel K. W. Structural color three-dimensional printing by shrinking photonic crystals |
title | Structural color three-dimensional printing by shrinking photonic crystals |
title_full | Structural color three-dimensional printing by shrinking photonic crystals |
title_fullStr | Structural color three-dimensional printing by shrinking photonic crystals |
title_full_unstemmed | Structural color three-dimensional printing by shrinking photonic crystals |
title_short | Structural color three-dimensional printing by shrinking photonic crystals |
title_sort | structural color three-dimensional printing by shrinking photonic crystals |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6761189/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31554803 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12360-w |
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