Mechano-actuated ultrafast full-colour switching in layered photonic hydrogels

Youfeng Yue, Takayuki Kurokawa, Md Anamul Haque, Tasuku Nakajima, Takayuki Nonoyama, Xufeng Li, Itsuro Kajiwara and Jian Ping Gong ()
Additional contact information
Youfeng Yue: Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University
Takayuki Kurokawa: Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University
Md Anamul Haque: Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University
Tasuku Nakajima: Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University
Takayuki Nonoyama: Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University
Xufeng Li: Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University
Itsuro Kajiwara: Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University
Jian Ping Gong: Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University

Nature Communications, 2014, vol. 5, issue 1, 1-8

Abstract: Abstract Photonic crystals with tunability in the visible region are of great interest for controlling light diffraction. Mechanochromic photonic materials are periodically structured soft materials designed with a photonic stop-band that can be tuned by mechanical forces to reflect specific colours. Soft photonic materials with broad colour tunability and fast colour switching are invaluable for application. Here we report a novel mechano-actuated, soft photonic hydrogel that has an ultrafast-response time, full-colour tunable range, high spatial resolution and can be actuated by a very small compressive stress. In addition, the material has excellent mechanical stability and the colour can be reversibly switched at high frequency more than 10,000 times without degradation. This material can be used in optical devices, such as full-colour display and sensors to visualize the time evolution of complicated stress/strain fields, for example, generated during the motion of biological cells.

Date: 2014
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms5659 Abstract (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:natcom:v:5:y:2014:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms5659

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5659

Access Statistics for this article

Nature Communications is currently edited by Nathalie Le Bot, Enda Bergin and Fiona Gillespie

More articles in Nature Communications from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().