Abstract
A new technique produces kilometre-scale single-domain opaline photonic crystals from standard polymers by novel solvent-less nano-assembly. Stretching these unusual elastomeric photonic crystals breaks their traditional optical scattering selection rules, and enables many applications.
© 2011 Optical Society of America
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