Raw Data: Optimizing Color Saturation in Colloidal Photonic Crystals by Control of Absorber Amount and Distribution

This data publication is based on the metadata and datasets underlying the manuscripts "Optimizing Color Saturation in Colloidal Photonic Crystals by Control of Absorber Amount and Distribution" 1. 'UV-VIS.zip' contains the following data: Macro-Photography of photonic crystals in PDMS molds (heterogeneous and homogeneous) UV-VIS spectra of photonic crystals in PDMS molds (heterogeneous and homogeneous) 2. 'Correlative Microscopy.zip' contains the following data: Light Microscopy (LM) and SEM images of photonic crystals made by vertical convective deposition (heterogeneous and homogeneous), for varied compositions and 5, 7 and 9 layer and meassurement of particle packing density based on these SEM images Macro-Photography of photonic crystals made by vertical convective deposition (heterogeneous and homogeneous) Microscopic Spectra of photonic crystals made by vertical convective deposition (heterogeneous and homogeneous) for 5, 7 and 9 layers 3. 'Figure SI 2 Zetapotentials.xlsx' contains meassured Zetapotential and error of PS and PS@PDA NPs employed in the assembly 4. 'RGB and chromaticity.zip' contains the following data: Chromaticity calculated from L*a*b*-values of photonic crystals in PDMS molds (heterogeneous and homogeneous) listed with their corresponding PDA volume ratio/ PDA layer thickness RGB-values and L*a*b*-values derived from UV-VIS spectra of photonic crystals in PDMS molds (heterogeneous and homogeneous) named after PS particle ratio and layer thickness respectively 5. 'Simulations.zip' contains the following data: Spectra of photonic crystals simulated by DDA (heterogeneous and homogeneous); raw (unprocessed) and fitted RGB-values, L*a*b*-values and chromaticity derived from spectra of photonic crystals simulated by DDA (heterogeneous and homogeneous)