Responsive soft materials, with unique advantages of light weight, flexibility and large
deformation upon activation, have attracted extensive attention in the fields of aerospace …

Photoluminescence is one of the most meticulous ways to manipulate light energy. Typical
photoluminescent emitters are mostly stable substances with a pure photophysical process …

Nematic liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are advanced materials known for their shape-
changing capability in response to external stimuli such as heat, light, solvents and …

From batteries to biology, many important technologies and physical phenomena operate as
out-of-equilibrium reactive systems. Accurately modeling the nanoscale dynamics of non …

Recently, extensive works have focused on increasing the dissymmetry factors (glum) of
various circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) materials, which is one of the most …

Cholesteric liquid crystal oligomers are an interesting class of temperature responsive
structurally colored materials. However, the role of endcap molecules in these oligomers is …

Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are polymeric materials that are proposed for a range of
applications. However, to reach their full potential, it is desirable to have as much flexibility …

We create high-aspect-ratio dynamic poly-regional surface topographies in a coating of a
main-chain liquid crystal oligomer network (LCON). The topographies form at the topological …

This study investigates the quantitative photomechanical actuation properties of a
bifunctional acrylate liquid crystal (LC242) doped with azo dye and graphene oxide (GO) …

The cylindrical distribution function (CDF) is a convenient anisotropic analogue of the radial
distribution function, the difference being the use of cylindrical shells for binning. As such …