Featured Application Nanomaterial-doped liquid crystals. Abstract The research field of
liquid crystals and their applications is recently changing from being largely focused on …

Colloidal particles in a liquid crystal (LC) behave very differently from their counterparts in
isotropic fluids. Elastic nature of the orientational order and surface anchoring of the director …

The ability to control both the mobility and chemical compositions of microliter-scale
aqueous droplets is an essential prerequisite for next-generation open surface microfluidics …

Liquid crystals (LCs) are anisotropic fluids that combine the long-range order of crystals with
the mobility of liquids,. This combination of properties has been widely used to create …

Liquid crystals (LCs) are fluids within which molecules exhibit long-range orientational
order, leading to anisotropic properties such as optical birefringence and curvature elasticity …

Many living and artificial systems show similar emergent behavior and collective motions on
different scales, starting from swarms of bacteria to synthetic active particles, herds of …

A key challenge underlying the design of miniature machines is encoding materials with
time‐and space‐specific functional behaviors that require little human intervention …

Droplet‐based miniature reactors have attracted interest in both fundamental studies, for the
unique reaction kinetics they enable, and applications in bio‐diagnosis and material …

Electro-optical switching with low voltage, no hysteresis and fast response speed is
achieved in polymer-stabilized nanoparticle-enriched blue phase liquid crystals with a wide …

Targeted, on‐demand delivery has been of interest using materials responsive to
environmental stimuli. A delivery technique based on precise release of aqueous …