The rapid development of additive manufacturing has fueled a revolution in various research
fields and industrial applications. Among the myriad of advanced 3D printing techniques …

Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) are polymer networks exhibiting anisotropic liquid
crystallinity while maintaining elastomeric properties. Owing to diverse polymeric forms and …

Recent years have seen major advances in the developments of both additive
manufacturing concepts and responsive materials. When combined as 4D printing, the …

A reconfigurable actuator is a stimuli-responsive structure that can be programmed to adapt
different shapes under identical stimulus. Reconfigurable actuators that function without …

Abstract 3D printing of adaptive and dynamic structures, also known as 4D printing, is one of
the key challenges in contemporary materials science. The additional dimension refers to …

The ability to control light direction with tailored precision via facile means is long‐desired in
science and industry. With the advances in optics, a periodic structure called diffraction …

The concept of optical temperature sensing using band intensity ratio is considered as one
of the most effective, self‐reference, non‐invasive, and rapid detection techniques for the …

Optical metasurfaces, planar subwavelength nanoantenna arrays with the singular ability to
sculpt wavefront in almost arbitrary manners, are poised to become a powerful tool enabling …

Since the pioneering work of Kawata and colleagues in 1997, multi‐photon 3D laser
printing, also known as direct laser writing, has made significant advancements in a wide …

Ideally, many materials should have a “knob” that allows for changing its properties at will,
including the possibility to flip the sign of its behavior. This “knob” could be used to …