Liquid crystalline blue phases (BPs), being regarded as an emerging photonic material,
have attracted enormous research interest owing to their unique periodic nanostructures …

Blue-Phase Liquid Crystals (BPLCs) are considered to be excellent 3D photonic crystals
and have attracted a great deal of attention due to their great potential for advanced …

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

Two novel enantiomeric chiral fluorescence photoswitches containing two chiroptical (S)‐(−)‐
or (R)‐(+)‐1, 1′‐bi‐2‐naphthol covalently bonded to a central dicyanodistyrylbenzene unit …

In a narrow temperature window in going from the isotropic to highly chiral orders,
cholesteric liquid crystals exhibit so-called blue phases, consisting of different morphologies …

For the demonstration of remote‐controllable actuators, a dendronized polymer (denpol) is
newly designed and successfully synthesized by ring‐opening metathesis polymerization of …

Solid‐state luminescence is an important strategy for color generation via molecular self‐
assembly. Here, a new luminogen (AT3EMIS) containing both a rigid chromophore and a …

Stimuli-responsive soft matters have been recognised by many scientists and engineers as
very important because of their inherent characteristics in response to environmental …

The preparation of materials exhibiting structural colors has been intensively studied in
biomimetic science and technology. Utilizing a newly synthesized cholesteric liquid-crystal …

For the development of optically encryptable smart glass that can control the molecular
alignment of liquid crystals (LCs), an azobenzene-based reactive molecule (ARM) capable …