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Chemistry World May 18, 2009 James Urquhart	Tailored colors for photonic crystals Korean and US scientists have permanently fixed the color of block copolymer photonic crystals by swelling photonic gels and 'freezing' them as they display the desired color.
Chemistry World January 28, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Colourful Crystals Monitor Humidity Chinese chemists have developed a material that changes color according to the humidity of the air around it.
Technology Research News March 24, 2004	Irregular layout sharpens light Aperiodic photonic crystal could improve devices that shape, detect and filter light, including communications devices like photodetectors, demultiplexers, which sort wavelengths of light, and channel drop filters, which filter out different wavelengths.
Chemistry World March 29, 2011	A Single Scale Tells More Than a Whole Wing Scientists in China have made zinc oxide replicas of single scales from butterfly wings to understand and exploit their optical properties for sensor and solar cell applications.
Technology Research News November 19, 2003	Liquid Crystal Tunes Fiber Researchers have combined photonic crystal and liquid crystal to make an optical fiber whose properties can change according to temperature. The combination allows the researchers to change the properties of the light inside the fiber.
Chemistry World October 16, 2007 Jonathan Edwards	3D Nanoprinter Makes Oxide Sculptures Researchers have made inks that can print tiny three-dimensional patterns using metal oxides. The inks could allow fast, easy printing of micro-fuel cells, sensors and photonic crystals, the scientists say.
Chemistry World July 13, 2007 Tom Westgate	Colourful Colloids A simple mixture of iron oxide, a polymer and water can take on any color simply by applying a magnetic field.
Technology Research News November 3, 2004	Photonic Crystal Lasers Juiced Researchers have made a photonic crystal laser that is driven by electric current. The device could eventually be used as a source of single photons for quantum cryptography and communications devices.
Technology Research News June 29, 2005	Crystal promises more light Spontaneous emission from chip-based devices like light-emitting diodes can lower efficiency and create noise. Researchers have created a device that can harness the energy from the emissions and put them towards positive ends.
Chemistry World October 22, 2007 Simon Hadlington	A Swell Idea? US researchers have developed a new polymer-based gel that can rapidly change color in response to a range of triggers, including temperature, humidity and salt concentration.
Technology Research News June 4, 2003 Eric Smalley	Shock waves tune light Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have used a computer simulation to show that sending shock waves through photonic crystals could lead to faster and cheaper telecommunications devices, more efficient solar cells, and advances in quantum computing.
Reactive Reports December 2006 David Bradley	Biomolecules Out on a Wing Photonic crystals give butterflies their beautiful colors and synthetic versions are now being developed for a range of technological applications.
Technology Research News September 8, 2004	Photonic Crystal Throttles Light Researchers have showed that the spacing of a photonic crystal can be used to control the timing of light emitted by a quantum dot.
Technology Research News July 28, 2004 Eric Smalley	Photonic chips go 3D Computer chips made from photonic crystal promise better communications equipment and ultrafast, all-optical computers
Technology Research News February 11, 2004	Magnets tune photonic crystal Researchers from Fudan University in China have found that it is possible to use a magnetic field to quickly shift or block certain frequencies of electromagnetic signals passing through photonic crystals made from semiconductor material.
Chemistry World September 18, 2012 Harriet Brewerton	Colorful metal detection Scientists in China have developed a sensor that can indicate the presence of heavy metal ions in a sample with a simple color change by using aptamers. Aptamers are single-stranded DNA or RNA molecules.
Chemistry World December 17, 2007 Jonathan Edwards	A Simpler Way to Photonic Crystals Chinese scientists have found an easy way to make highly regular crystal structures from a polymer mixture.
Chemistry World March 20, 2014 James Urquhart	Nanoparticle composites make colorful magnetic crystals Incorporating nanoparticles into single crystal materials can imbue them with new properties, such as color and magnetism, thanks to gel crystallization techniques developed independently by UK and Chinese research groups.
Technology Research News July 2, 2003	Tiny T splits light Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have designed a compact photonic crystal multiplexer that splits a lightwave into two slightly different colors.
Chemistry World November 11, 2011 Charlie Quigg	Invisible ink for the 21st century Scientists from China have developed a new lithographic printing technique to layer a pattern onto photonic paper.
Reactive Reports Issue 67 David Bradley	Attractive Changing Colors Chemists have discovered that a simple magnet can be used to change the color of nanoparticles of iron oxide in aqueous suspension.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008	Global Market for Photonic Crystals Set for High Growth Through 2013 The market segments are applications of light emission, information technology, optical sensing, energy conversion, light energy delivery, and other applications.
Chemistry World June 5, 2009 Nina Notman	Color e-books just over the page E Ink Corporation is to be brought by Prime View International in Taiwan for approximately $215 million. The companies say this should speed to market the colored ink devices that are currently being trialled.
Chemistry World January 30, 2008 Jonathan Edwards	DNA Helps Nanoparticles Crystallize Two papers in Nature have each shown a simple way to build designer crystals from nanoparticles, using DNA as 'glue'. Both methods show promise as a cheap way of mass-producing complex materials like photonic crystals.
Technology Research News May 21, 2003 Eric Smalley	Flexible display slims down Researchers from E Ink Corp. have produced a high-resolution electronic display that is 0.3 millimeters thick.
Technology Research News November 5, 2003 Eric Smalley	Crystal fiber goes distance Making fiber-optic lines that are hollow is one step toward more efficient telecommunications. Making lines that are full of holes goes further. Lots of regularly spaced holes bend light, which keeps it on the straight and narrow.
Chemistry World October 13, 2011 Rachel Cooper	Beating the Counterfeiters Scientists from China have created nanoparticles with dual mode color for anti-counterfeiting ink, making it harder to imitate than current inks.
InternetNews February 6, 2007 Ed Sutherland	Is Kodak Starting an Inkjet War? Kodak 'bets the ranch' on new printers and cheaper ink, which analysts say will force rivals to respond.
Reactive Reports Issue 33 David Bradley	Two-faced Liquid Crystals A new class of programmable liquid crystals could be used to make variable optical filters for laboratory instrumentation and digital cameras; they might even be used to treat dyslexia.
Technology Research News June 18, 2003 Eric Smalley	Chip sorts colors The simple concept of proportionality is the key to a significant advance in the emerging field of integrated optics -- chips that control light rather than electricity.
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 Neil Savage	Nanostructures Catch the Light Razor-thin solar cells could be cheap but need a little help holding light in
Technology Research News April 9, 2003	Liquid crystals go 3D Researchers from Sheffield University in England and the University of Pennsylvania have unlocked some of the secrets of liquid crystals, materials that self-assemble into lattices of geometric shapes that are neither solid nor liquid, but somewhere between.
IEEE Spectrum March 2010 Jason Heikenfeld	The Electronic Display of the Future Kindle, iPad, Droid -- these compact mobile devices are essentially all display. But the screens aren't all we'd like them to be. Yet.
Technology Research News November 19, 2003 Eric Smalley	Switch promises optical chips Computers have historically been electronic rather than photonic because lightwaves, while great for sending signals over long distances, are controlled by equipment that has proven difficult to shrink to computer chip scale. The rise of photonic crystals promises to narrow the gap.
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Justin Mullins	Butterfly Effect The structure that makes one LED researcher's device so special has recently been found to be similar to a sophisticated method of manipulating light discovered in the African swallowtail butterfly Princeps nireus.
PC Magazine November 30, 2004 M. David Stone	Printing in Black, Revisited With ink jet prints, very little is black and white.
Technology Research News June 1, 2005 Eric Smalley	Movie Captures Trapped Light Slow light, once better understood, could be used to improve devices like sensors and optical communications equipment. Researchers have moved the field forward with a way to directly observe the phenomenon.
Technology Research News October 22, 2003	Fiber handles powerful pulses Researchers from Cornell University and Corning, Inc. have shown that it's possible to preserve the shape, intensity and color of a very high-power light pulse as it travels through 200 meters of a fiber-optic cable.
Chemistry World September 11, 2009 Nina Notman	Photographing flexible electronics Scientists in Germany have taken inspiration from photography to develop a fast, room temperature route to making flexible electronic components, which could lead to low cost flexible solar cells and other flexible electronic devices.
Technology Research News April 21, 2004	Printer Writes Micro 3D Objects University of Illinois researchers have come up with a new type of quick-setting three-dimensional ink that works a bit like a microscopic tube of toothpaste.
PC Magazine June 22, 2004 Michael J. Miller	HP on the Future of Printers An excerpt from an interview with HP's Imaging and Printing Group general manager about the future of printing.
PC World April 2004 Melissa Riofrio	The Cheapskate's Guide to Printing You want great-looking output. You don't want to spend a fortune on ink and paper. These tips and tricks can help.
InternetNews March 23, 2007 Andy Patrizio	New Inkjet Printer Claims Super Fast Speeds Silverbrook Research says its new printing method can achieve speeds as fast as 60 pages per second.
Inc. July 2007 Michael Fitzgerald	Beyond Words New printers can do it all.
Chemistry World December 10, 2007 Killugudi Jayaraman	Scientists Trap Light in Nano-Soup Physicists in India, have demonstrated how to trap and retrieve light using a soup of micro- and nano-sized magnetic spheres.
Technology Research News June 16, 2004	Scheme Optimizes Light Chips Researchers have borrowed a design tool developed for mechanical engineering to improve the efficiency of nano-size optical waveguides.
Chemistry World January 11, 2008 Victoria Gill	Fish Scales Hold Dazzling Secret Scientists in Israel have discovered the surprising secrets of the specialized crystals in fish skin that allow them to shimmer.
Chemistry World January 6, 2015 Jon Cartwright	Mystery of why 'structural red' colors are not found in nature is solved Purple, green, blue -- photonic glasses can produce a wide variety of colors. But not red, which is mysteriously absent from both man made and natural microstructures.
PC World March 2004 Tom Spring	Irate Over Ink Consumers wonder if ink jet manufacturers are making them buy more inkjet cartridges before they're totally depleated.
Chemistry World September 28, 2012 Laura Howes	Tuning photonic crystals by blending brush polymers Bob Grubbs at the California Institute of Technology in the US, has previously made photonic crystals with brush block copolymers but this precise tuning of the wavelength of reflected light is new.