Liquid crystals: versatile self-organized smart soft materials

HK Bisoyi, Q Li - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Smart soft materials are envisioned to be the building blocks of the next generation of
advanced devices and digitally augmented technologies. In this context, liquid crystals (LCs) …

Beyond the visible: bioinspired infrared adaptive materials

J Yang, X Zhang, X Zhang, L Wang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Infrared (IR) adaptation phenomena are ubiquitous in nature and biological systems. Taking
inspiration from natural creatures, researchers have devoted extensive efforts for developing …

Tunable liquid crystal grating based holographic 3D display system with wide viewing angle and large size

YL Li, NN Li, D Wang, F Chu, SD Lee… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
As one of the most ideal display approaches, holographic 3-dimensional (3D) display has
always been a research hotspot since the holographic images reproduced in such system …

Self-assembled liquid crystal architectures for soft matter photonics

LL Ma, CY Li, JT Pan, YE Ji, C Jiang, R Zheng… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Self-assembled architectures of soft matter have fascinated scientists for centuries due to
their unique physical properties originated from controllable orientational and/or positional …

[HTML][HTML] Large viewing angle holographic 3D display system based on maximum diffraction modulation

D Wang, NN Li, YL Li, YW Zheng, ZQ Nie… - Light: Advanced …, 2023 - light-am.com
An ideal holographic 3D display should have the characteristics of large viewing angle, full
color, and low speckle noise. However, the viewing angle of the holographic 3D display is …

3D laser displays based on circularly polarized lasing from cholesteric liquid crystal arrays

X Zhan, FF Xu, Z Zhou, Y Yan, J Yao… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 3D laser displays play an important role in next‐generation display technologies
owing to the ultimate visual experience they provide. Circularly polarized (CP) laser …

Photochromism into nanosystems: towards lighting up the future nanoworld

L Wang, Q Li - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The ability to manipulate the structure and function of promising nanosystems via energy
input and external stimuli is emerging as an attractive paradigm for developing …

Nature‐inspired emerging chiral liquid crystal nanostructures: from molecular self‐assembly to DNA mesophase and nanocolloids

L Wang, AM Urbas, Q Li - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid crystals (LCs) are omnipresent in living matter, whose chirality is an elegant and
distinct feature in certain plant tissues, the cuticles of crabs, beetles, arthropods, and …

Liquid‐crystal‐mediated geometric phase: from transmissive to broadband reflective planar optics

P Chen, BY Wei, W Hu, YQ Lu - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Planar optical elements that can manipulate the multidimensional physical parameters of
light efficiently and compactly are highly sought after in modern optics and nanophotonics. In …

Functional soft materials from blue phase liquid crystals

K Bagchi, T Emeršič, JA Martínez-González… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Blue phase (BP) liquid crystals are chiral fluids wherein millions of molecules self-assemble
into cubic lattices that are on the order of hundred nanometers. As the unit cell sizes of BPs …