Granted Patent B2

US 12,286,494 · App. 17/938,110 · Granted Apr 29, 2025

Inventors: Shufen Zhang (Liaoning, CN); Changtong Zhou (Liaoning, CN); Wenbin Niu (Liaoning, CN); Wei Ma (Liaoning, CN); Bingtao Tang (Liaoning, CN); Suli Wu (Liaoning, CN)

Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

C08F222/1063

Abstract

Claims (20)

1. A chromogenic double-inverse opal photonic crystal resin film using water as ink, comprising a polyacrylamide or polydiacetone acrylamide network structure, wherein the network structure is formed by embedding nanospheres in pores of a polyacrylate inverse opal framework material to obtain a double-inverse opal photonic crystal resin film and then filling the pores of the double-inverse opal photonic crystal resin film with an ethanol solution with hydrophilic acrylamide or diacetone acrylamide dissolved therein followed by photopolymerization,

wherein

a mass fraction of hydrophilic acrylamide or diacetone acrylamide in the ethanol solution is 2 to 8 wt. %, and

the nanosphere are selected from polystyrene, polymethylmethacrylate, poly(styrene-methyl methacrylate-acrylic acid), titanium dioxide, cadmium sulfide, zinc oxide, and zinc sulfide.

2. The chromogenic double-inverse opal photonic crystal resin film using water as ink according to claim 1 , wherein a particle size of the nanospheres ranges from 165 to 230 nm, and an aperture of the polyacrylate inverse opal framework material ranges from 185 to 280 nm.

3. The chromogenic double-inverse opal photonic crystal resin film using water as ink according to claim 2 , wherein a particle size distribution of the nanospheres ranges from 0.02 to 0.07 and a surface potential ranges from −50 to −35 mV.

4. The chromogenic double-inverse opal photonic crystal resin film using water as ink according to claim 2 , wherein the polyacrylate inverse opal framework material is formed by photopolymerization of triacrylates, diacrylates and acrylic acid as monomer components, wherein a volume ratio of triacrylates, diacrylates and acrylic acid is 1:4:0.5 to 1:4:2.

5. The chromogenic double-inverse opal photonic crystal resin film using water as ink according to claim 4 , wherein the tricrylates is ethoxylated trimethylolpropane triacrylate, and the diacrylates is poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylates.

6. A method for preparing the chromogenic double-inverse opal photonic crystal resin film using water as ink according to claim 1 , comprising the following steps of:

S1: coating a core-shell nanosphere concentrate with a mass fraction of 20 to 40 wt. % on a glass or stainless-steel substrate, wherein the nanospheres self-assemble to form an opal photonic crystal template; and placing the opal photonic crystal template in an oven at 80 to 95° C. for 0.5 to 2 hours;

S2: affixing polyimide tape at four corners of the opal photonic crystal template as gaskets, and covering a glass sheet thereon to form a gap with a width ranging from 500 to 1000 μm; filling the gap with a mixture liquor of triacrylates, diacrylates, acrylic acid and photoinitiator to conduct a photopolymerization under ultraviolet with a power of 0.5 to 2 kW for 30 to 60 seconds to obtain a polyacrylate resin composite film;

S3: etching the shell of the polyacrylate resin composite film by hydrofluoric acid with a mass fraction of 1 to 10 wt. % to obtain a polyacrylate double-inverse opal photonic crystal resin film; and

S4: filling a surface of the polyacrylate double-inverse opal photonic crystal resin film with the ethanol solution with hydrophilic acrylamide or diacetone acrylamide dissolved therein to conduct a photopolymerization under ultraviolet with a power of 0.5 to 2 kW for 3 to 20 minutes to obtain the chromogenic double-inverse opal photonic crystal resin film using water as ink, wherein, the ethanol solution with hydrophilic acrylamide or diacetone acrylamide dissolved therein is prepared from hydrophilic acrylamide or diacetone acrylamide, a cross-linking agent, a photoinitiator and ethanol, and a mass fraction of hydrophilic acrylamide or diacetone acrylamide in the ethanol B solution is 2 to 8 wt. %.

7. The chromogenic double-inverse opal photonic crystal resin film using water as ink according to claim 6 , wherein the core-shell nanosphere is selected from one of polystyrene coated with silicon dioxide, polymethylmethacrylate coated with silicon dioxide, poly (styrene-methyl methacrylate-acrylic acid) coated with silicon dioxide, titanium dioxide coated with silicon dioxide, cadmium sulfide coated with silicon dioxide, zinc oxide coated with silicon dioxide, and zinc sulfide coated with silicon dioxide.

8. The chromogenic double-inverse opal photonic crystal resin film using water as ink according to claim 7 , wherein for the core-shell nanosphere, a particle size is 165 to 230 nm, a PDI for particle size distribution is 0.02 to 0.06, and a surface potential is −45 to −50 mV.

9. The chromogenic double-inverse opal photonic crystal resin film using water as ink according to claim 6 , wherein the cross-linking agent is N,N-methylenebisacrylamide or trimethylolpropane triacrylate, and the photoinitiator is 2,2-dimethoxy-2-phenylacetophenone or 2-hydroxy-2-methyl-1-phenyl-1-acetone.

10. The chromogenic double-inverse opal photonic crystal resin film using water as ink according to claim 6 , wherein

in step S1, a coating amount of the core-shell nanosphere concentrate is 2.0 to 3.0 μL/cm 2 , and the core-shell nanosphere concentrate is prepared with ethanol;

in step S2, an amount of the photoinitiator accounts for 1 to 6% of a total volume of the triacrylates, diacrylates and acrylic acid; and

in step S4, a mass ratio of acrylamide or diacetone acrylamide to the crosslinking agent is 1:5 to 15, an amount of the photoinitiator is 5 to 15% by mass of the acrylamide or diacetone acrylamide, and a filling amount of the ethanol solution with hydrophilic acrylamide or diacetone acrylamide dissolved therein is 10-20 μL/cm 2 .

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