Electrically responsive photonic crystals are promising materials for electrophoretic color displays with better brightness and color saturation. However, electric field must always be applied to maintain the specific colors, which brings concerns about the power consumption and signal stability and reversibility. Here, we show an electrically responsive photonic crystal with two stable states at 0 V, which are the colored state or the colorless state with ordered or disordered particle arrangement. The color state can be reversibly switched by applying a short-time electrical field, just like in the case of commercial electrophoretic ink. With optimized recipe and electric field, the photonic crystals encapsulated in the prototype display panel are proved to have potentials in high resolution, multi-color, and greyscale display, which lays down a firm basis for reflective displays with low power consumption and good visibility.

A novel Pd1Ni4 bimetal nanocomposite catalyst was prepared and showed better performance than their monometallic counterpart. What's more, the catalyst could be reused ten times without significant change in catalytic activity, which met the request of sustainable chemistry.

Electrically responsive photonic crystal (ERPC) based on particle electrophoresis is a promising material to construct reflective color displays with low‐power‐consumption and antiglare advantages. However, the high driving voltages for the polar ERPC inevitably cause electrochemical reactions on the electrode, which decreases the stability and reversibility of electrical response. Here, a weak‐polar EPRC composed of hydrophobic SiO2 particles, 1,2‐dichlorobenzene (DCB), and dioctyl sulfosuccinate sodium salt (AOT) is fabricated based on the charge separation by AOT reverse micelles and formation of highly charged particles in DCB. Compared to the polar ERPCs, the SiO2/DCB‐AOT ERPC works at much lower voltages (0.5–1.7 V) and still possesses a wide color tuning range because the weak‐polar solvent applies less screening to the coulombic interactions. The low potential further renders the ERPC good capability against color fading in a strong field and long‐term reversibility during color switching, which addresses the critical concerns for its application in reflective displays.

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Pd‐catalyzed Suzuki–Miyaura cross‐coupling (SMC) reactions are important in chemistry. In this work, using electrospinning technology, we prepared a novel type of composite catalyst with ligand structures such as urea‐Pd/PAN (polyacrylonitrile) and used them to catalyze SMC reactions in nontoxic systems and “green” conditions (air atmosphere, low temperature, and short reaction time). This method of preparing hybrid materials is simple and easy to operate. The higher catalytic activity of the catalysts is attributed to active centers with rich electrons transferred from ligands with unique structures, which can decrease the activation energy of the rate‐determining step (oxidative addition). In addition, urea‐Pd/PAN composite catalysts exhibit higher catalytic performance than those reduced by H2 because of the smaller size of active species and the more‐efficient oxidative addition to Pd0–ligand complexes compared to Pd0.