Light-driven phenomena both in living systems and nonliving materials have enabled truly
fascinating and incredible dynamic architectures with terrific forms and functions. Recently …

A review of basic physical phenomena underlying the light-induced molecular reorientation
in nematic liquid crystals is presented. A detailed description of the mechanisms of direct …

The review describes the status of the studies and the recent achievements in the field of
photoalignment of liquid crystals. An update classification of photoaligning materials and …

With rapidly expanding interest in liquid crystalline polymers and elastomers among the
liquid crystal community, researchers are currently exploring the wide range of possible …

This study examines the surface-assisted photoalignment effect of dye-doped liquid-crystal
films having a homogeneous alignment. Observations made using a polarizing optical …

We show that adsorption of dye molecules control the light-induced alignment of dye-doped
nematic liquid crystal (LC) on a nonphotosensitive polymer surface. The dependencies of …

We report the effect of light-induced sliding of the nematic director over an isotropic
boundary surface in an azo-dye doped liquid-crystal cell. We show that illumination of the …

Light-induced anchoring of the molecular director is reported to be an efficient method for
writing permanent holographic gratings in dye-doped liquid crystals. We have achieved …

Surface-localized electromagnetic fields can induce strong reorientation of liquid crystals
(LC s), thus making it possible to observe a whole new class of opto-electronic phenomena …

This work demonstrates the feasibility of a polarizer-free, electrically switchable and optically
rewritable display based on dye-doped polymer-dispersed liquid crystals (DD-PDLCs) …