Coloration in supraparticles assembled from polyhedral metal-organic framework particles

Supraparticles are spherical colloidal crystals prepared by confined self-assembly processes. A particularly appealing property of these microscale structures is the structural color arising from interference of light with their building blocks. Here, we assemble supraparticles with high structural...

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Autores: Wang, Junwei|||0000-0002-9062-8736, Liu, Yang, Bleyer, Gudrun, Goerlitzer, Eric S. A.|||0000-0003-4088-929X, Englisch, Silvan, Przybilla, Thomas, Mbah Chrameh, Fru, Engel, Michael|||0000-0002-7031-3825, Spiecker, Erdmann, Imaz, Inhar|||0000-0002-0278-1141, Maspoch Comamala, Daniel|||0000-0003-1325-9161, Vogel, Nicolas|||0000-0002-9831-6905
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:267078
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/267078
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1002/ange.202117455
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Emulsion
Metal-organic frameworks
Self-Assembly
Structural color
Supraparticles
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Sumario:Supraparticles are spherical colloidal crystals prepared by confined self-assembly processes. A particularly appealing property of these microscale structures is the structural color arising from interference of light with their building blocks. Here, we assemble supraparticles with high structural order that exhibit coloration from uniform, polyhedral metal-organic framework (MOF) particles. We analyse the structural coloration as a function of the size of these anisotropic building blocks and their internal structure. We attribute the angle-dependent coloration of the MOF supraparticles to the presence of ordered, onion-like layers at the outermost regions. Surprisingly, even though different shapes of the MOF particles have different propensities to form these onion layers, all supraparticle dispersions show well-visible macroscopic coloration, indicating that local ordering is sufficient to generate interference effects.