Explore synthetic material applications that mimic iridescent opal, enabling vibrant displays in electronic paper and advertising. developers, who said they’re ready to sell the technology today, ...

Opals have a unique property: Their color comes not from pigment, but from their internal molecular structure, which is organized in such a way that it reflects certain wavelengths of light. This ...

A material that can readily switch between a rainbow of colours has cleared a key hurdle to commercialisation, according to a group of entrepreneurial chemists. The developers of 'photonic ink' (P-Ink ...

KYOTO, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kyocera Corporation (NYSE:KYO) (TOKYO:6971) announced that its original decorative material, “Kyoto Opal,” is being utilized in KOKOIST’s new line of nail gel products.

Perfect synthetic opals could be produced by copying a technique used by a small beetle, say researchers in this week’s Nature. “The interesting thing is that this has been found in a living organism, ...

PRINCETON, N.J. — Scientists at the NEC Research Institute and Princeton University today reported a breakthrough in development of materials and inexpensive processes for photonic band-gap crystals ...

Opals have a unique property: Their color comes not from pigment, but from their internal molecular structure, which is organized in such a way that it reflects certain wavelengths of light. This ...