(Nanowerk Spotlight) Self-assembly, the spontaneous organization of molecules into ordered structures, has long captivated scientists with its elegance and potential. By harnessing the same principles ...

MXene thin films deliver brighter, more tunable structural colors and a wider color range than conventional materials, enabling scalable high-performance coatings for sensors, displays, and security ...

Team develops a flexible and stretchable device capable of omnidirectional color wavelength control. A team at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), spearheaded by Professor Su Seok ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

New research has achieved a significant breakthrough in color switching for nanocrystals, unlocking exciting possibilities for a simple, energy efficient display design and for tunable light sources ...

Chiral-structural-color materials produce color through microscopic structures that interact with light rather than through pigmentation or dyes. Some beetle exoskeletons, avian feathers, butterfly ...

Printed 2D and 3D microstructures in different structural colors. (A) Logo of 2D Max Planck Society in different colors. The patterns are printed at different driving electric fields, yielding ...

Researchers at Hebrew University of Jerusalem developed a method to fabricate semi-transparent, flexible halide perovskite solar cells with tunable transparency and color via 3D micro-printed ...

Danish researchers have developed color-tunable foil technology made in a roll-to-roll process for building integrated PV (BIPV) modules. In two recent papers the researchers detailed an optimization ...

A team at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea, led by Prof. Su Seok Choi and Seungmin Nam has developed a novel stretchable photonic device “that can control light wavelengths ...