Different phoretic driving mechanisms have been proposed for the transport of solid or liquid
microscopic inclusions in integrated chemical processes. It is now shown that a substrate …

Condensed matter physics is facing new challenges and opportunities raising from the vast
and increasingly attractive field of soft materials and complex fluids. Here, we concentrate on …

Molecular interactions in thin liquid films, such as the disjoining pressure, are involved in
interfacial phenomena such as emulsion and foam stabilization. In this article we show that …

Photosurfactants have shown considerable promise for enabling stimuli-responsive control
of the properties and motion of fluid interfaces. Recently, a number of photoswitch …

The Langmuir− Schaefer (LS) films of an achiral azobenzene derivative, 4-octyl-4 '-(5-
carboxypentamethyleneoxy) azobenzene (C8AzoC5), were fabricated and their optical …

We study the dynamics of annihilation of point defects in Langmuir monolayers. The
absence of hydrodynamic effects allows us to quantitatively relate the asymmetry in defect …

This article presents a strategy for controlling supramolecular chirality for polydiacetylene LB
films with the command azobenzene derivative monolayer. An achiral amphiphilic …

We report a novel phenomenon of chiral selection in self-assembled condensates of achiral
amphiphiles. The handedness of chiral textures, reproducing the collective rotational …

The concept of programmable and reconfigurable soft matter has emerged in science in the
last few decades and can be realized by photoisomerization of azobenzene derivatives. This …

A simple kinetic model of a two-component deformable and reactive bilayer is presented.
The two differently shaped components are interconverted by a nonequilibrium reaction, and …