Inspired by nature, humidity-responsive materials and devices have attracted significant
interest from scientists in multiple disciplines, ranging from chemistry, physics and materials …

Circularly polarized light (CPL) plays an important role in many photonic techniques,
including tomographic scanning based on circular polarization ellipsometry, optical …

Stimuli‐responsive photonic crystals (PCs) have been extensively studied due to their
potential in fabrication of anti‐counterfeiting devices and information storage. In this work …

Chiral photonics has emerged as a key technology for future optoelectronics, such as
quantum information and encryption, by making use of photonic waves from enantiomeric …

Polymer-stabilized cholesteric liquid crystal (PSCLC) films have been widely studied for their
application as sensors, polarizers, and reflective windows. However, the preparation of …

Dynamic photonic crystals with tunable structural colors have been a hot topic in the
research of anticounterfeiting devices, decoration, and detection. In this work, we prepared …

Light manipulation strategies of nature have fascinated humans for centuries. In particular,
structural colors are of considerable interest due to their ability to control the interaction …

Rodlike “POSS–bottlebrush block copolymers”(POSSBBCPs) containing crystalline
polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) pendants in A block and amorphous …

Photonic shape memory (SM) polymers based on liquid crystalline blue phase (BP) films
have been fabricated by self-assembly and subsequent photopolymerization of liquid-crystal …

Utilizing sequential layer-by-layer (LBL) coating and subsequent photopolymerization, we
developed circular-polarizing and free-standing mirrors with a broad reflection bandwidth …