Title: Two-Chromatic Printing Creates Skin-Inspired Geminate Patterns Featuring Crosstalk-Free Chemical and Physical Colors

Author: Xiaojun Liu, Shuzhen Cui, Lang Qin*, Yanlei Yu*

Journal: Adv. Optical Mater., 2024, 12, 2302573

Abstract:

Skin-inspired optical materials that combine both chemical and physical colors provide enhanced information capacity for potential applications in optical multiplexing and anti-counterfeiting technologies. However, the existing materials suffer from the limitations of an extremely narrow gamut and incompatibility with universal patterning methods to program dual-mode images. Here, novel two-chromatic printing technology is proposed to create full-color, high-resolution, and geminate patterns by newly designed fluorescent liquid crystal nanocomposites. Such nanocomposites consist of porous cholesteric liquid crystal networks embedded with core–shell CdSe/ZnS quantum dots to produce extended wide color palettes of both photoluminescence and Bragg reflection. The drop-on-demand two-chromatic printing technology simultaneously enables the construction and patterning of the nanocomposites in a high-precision way, orthogonally tuning the hues of two color palettes according to Grassmann's and Bragg's law. Therefore, the combination of different color generation mechanisms offers a versatile toolbox, which can be generalized to pigmentary, photonic, and even dynamic optical materials.

论文链接：https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adom.202302573

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