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Photonic water dynamically responsive to external stimuli

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  • Koki Sano

    (School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
    RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science)

  • Youn Soo Kim

    (School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo)

  • Yasuhiro Ishida

    (RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science)

  • Yasuo Ebina

    (National Institute for Materials Science, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics)

  • Takayoshi Sasaki

    (National Institute for Materials Science, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics)

  • Takaaki Hikima

    (RIKEN SPring-8 Center)

  • Takuzo Aida

    (School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
    RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science)

Abstract

Fluids that contain ordered nanostructures with periodic distances in the visible-wavelength range, anomalously exhibit structural colours that can be rapidly modulated by external stimuli. Indeed, some fish can dynamically change colour by modulating the periodic distance of crystalline guanine sheets cofacially oriented in their fluid cytoplasm. Here we report that a dilute aqueous colloidal dispersion of negatively charged titanate nanosheets exhibits structural colours. In this ‘photonic water’, the nanosheets spontaneously adopt a cofacial geometry with an ultralong periodic distance of up to 675 nm due to a strong electrostatic repulsion. Consequently, the photonic water can even reflect near-infrared light up to 1,750 nm. The structural colour becomes more vivid in a magnetic flux that induces monodomain structural ordering of the colloidal dispersion. The reflective colour of the photonic water can be modulated over the entire visible region in response to appropriate physical or chemical stimuli.

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  • Koki Sano & Youn Soo Kim & Yasuhiro Ishida & Yasuo Ebina & Takayoshi Sasaki & Takaaki Hikima & Takuzo Aida, 2016. "Photonic water dynamically responsive to external stimuli," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 7(1), pages 1-9, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:7:y:2016:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms12559
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12559
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    1. Hiroya Nishikawa & Koki Sano & Fumito Araoka, 2022. "Anisotropic fluid with phototunable dielectric permittivity," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-9, December.

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