Color from hierarchy: Diverse optical properties of micron-sized spherical colloidal assemblies

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 35, 2015, Pages 10845-10850

  Vogel, Nicolas ^a,b   Utech, Stefanie ^a   England, Grant T ^a   Shirman, Tanya ^a,c   Phillips, Katherine R ^d   Koay, Natalie ^c   Burgess, Ian B ^c,e   Kolle, Mathias ^f   Weitz, David A ^a   Aizenberg, Joanna ^a,c,d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Colloids; Hierarchy; Photonic crystal; Self assembly; Structural color

Indexed keywords

GOLD NANOPARTICLE; MICROSPHERE; POLYSTYRENE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; COLLOID; COLOR; CRYSTAL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIFFRACTION; DISPERSION; EMULSION; FIBER OPTICS; GEOMETRY; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT INTENSITY; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROSCOPE IMAGE; NANOFABRICATION; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION INDEX;

EID: 84940988743     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1506272112     Document Type: Article

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