The application belongs to the technical field of structural color, and discloses a method for repeatedly constructing structural color on
thermoplastic plastic and application. Nano-silica microspheres are deposited on a
thermoplastic plastic substrate, and an ordered and periodic
photonic crystal structure is formed through self-
assembly, presenting structural color. The
thermoplastic plastic substrate with the deposited
photonic crystal is placed into a flat vulcanizing
machine for heating and pressing, so that the
photonic crystal structure and the structural color presented thereby are firmly attached to the thermoplastic plastic substrate. The thermoplastic plastic substrate with the firmly attached structural color is again placed into the flat vulcanizing
machine for heating and pressing, so that the attached structural color is faded, and thus the thermoplastic plastic substrate with faded color can be
colored again. The structural color obtained by the application has
high color fastness, can be repeatedly
colored, has the angle color change characteristic, is simple, fast, effective, green and environment-friendly, and can be applied to the fields of
dyeing, decoration and anti-counterfeiting, and provides a feasible method for replacing the use of traditional dyes.