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In this paper, we designed and investigated a reduction-based method to synthesize controllably monodisperse superparamagnetic nano FeO colloidal clusters for magnetically responsive photonic crystals. It was shown that the addition of ascorbic acid (VC) to the system could synthesize monodisperse superparamagnetic nano FeO and avoided the generation of γ-FeO impurities, while the particle size and saturation magnetization intensity of nano FeO gradually decreased with the increase of VC dosage. Nano FeO could be rapidly assembled into photonic crystal dot matrix structures under a magnetic field, demonstrating tunability to various diffraction wavelengths. The nano FeO modified by polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) and silicon coated could be stably dispersed in a variety of organic solvents and thus diffracted different wavelengths under a magnetic field. This is expected to be applied in various scenarios in the field of optical color development.
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ACS Nano
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Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro- and Nano-Structures of Ministry of Education, and School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China.
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Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (IBMCP), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones científicas, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022, Valencia, Spain. Electronic address:
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Department of Clinical Laboratories Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, 21944, Taif, Saudi Arabia.
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August 2025
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China.
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Electron Microscopy Center "Prof. C. Craciun", Faculty of Biology & Geology, "Babes-Bolyai" University, 5-7 Clinicilor St., 400006 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
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