Liquid crystals: versatile self-organized smart soft materials

HK Bisoyi, Q Li - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Smart soft materials are envisioned to be the building blocks of the next generation of
advanced devices and digitally augmented technologies. In this context, liquid crystals (LCs) …

Self-assembled liquid crystal architectures for soft matter photonics

LL Ma, CY Li, JT Pan, YE Ji, C Jiang, R Zheng… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Self-assembled architectures of soft matter have fascinated scientists for centuries due to
their unique physical properties originated from controllable orientational and/or positional …

Freestanding Helical Nanostructured Chiro‐Photonic Crystal Film and Anticounterfeiting Label Enabled by a Cholesterol‐Grafted Light‐Driven Molecular Motor

J Bao, Z Wang, C Shen, R Huang, C Song, Z Li… - Small …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Design and fabrication of freestanding chiro‐photonic crystal film with the ability to
change color over the whole visible light spectrum is appealing for anticounterfeiting …

Stimuli‐responsive active materials for dynamic control of light field

R Zheng, Y Wei, ZC Zhang, ZY Wang… - Responsive …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The increasing demand for the multidimensional and dynamic control of light has spurred
the development of stimuli‐responsive, reconfigurable, and programmable optical systems …

Tunable circularly polarized luminescent supramolecular systems: approaches and applications

XM Chen, S Zhang, X Chen, Q Li - ChemPhotoChem, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Circularly polarized luminescence is an important optical property that combines chirality
and luminescence in molecular and supramolecular systems. Recently, tunable circularly …

Chirality Supramolecular Systems: Helical Assemblies, Structure Designs, and Functions

S Jia, T Tao, Y Xie, L Yu, X Kang, Y Zhang, W Tang… - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Chirality, as one of the most striking characteristics, exists at various scales in nature.
Originating from the interactions of host and guest molecules, supramolecular chirality …

Multiple degrees‐of‐freedom programmable soft‐matter‐photonics: Configuration, manipulation, and advanced applications

Y Zhang, ZG Zheng, Q Li - Responsive Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
For centuries, humans have never stopped exploring the nature of light and manipulating it,
since light carries multiple information through its intrinsic wave‐particle dualism, including …

Crystalline liquids: Dynamic responsive materials for future devices

N Bedowr - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2024 - Elsevier
Crystalline liquids, known as liquid crystals (LCs), represent a fascinating class of materials
exhibiting properties intermediate between fluids and crystalline solids. LCs are …

Dynamic Surface Wrinkles for In Situ Light-Driven Dynamic Gratings

T Ma, L Zhou, J Hua, J Li, X Ma, W Qiao… - … Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Dynamic diffraction gratings (DDGs) are considered as one of the most promising
technologies for application in smart optical devices because of their in situ dynamic …

Large Thermally Irreversible Photoinduced Shift of Selective Light Reflection in Hydrazone‐Containing Cholesteric Polymer Systems

A Boychuk, V Shibaev, M Cigl, V Hamplova… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Stimuli responsive liquid crystalline polymers are a unique class of so‐called “smart”
materials demonstrating various types of mesomorphic structures easily controlled by …