Liquid crystals (LCs) are omnipresent in living matter, whose chirality is an elegant and
distinct feature in certain plant tissues, the cuticles of crabs, beetles, arthropods, and …

Supramolecular chemistry uses non-covalent interactions to coax molecules into forming
ordered assemblies. The construction of ordered materials with these reversible bonds has …

Spontaneous symmetry breaking and emergent polar order are each of fundamental
importance to a range of scientific disciplines, as well as generating rich phase behaviour in …

Since the discovery of the liquid‐crystalline state of matter 125 years ago, this field has
developed into a scientific area with many facets. This Review presents recent …

An anomalously large dielectric permittivity of≈ 104 is found in the mesophase temperature
range (MP phase) wherein high fluidity is observed for a liquid‐crystal compound having a …

Ferroelectricity in fluid materials, which allows free rotation of molecules, is an unusual
phenomenon raising cutting‐edge questions in science. Conventional ferroelectric liquid …

Thermotropic liquid crystals can be formed by various molecular shapes, some discovered
over 125 years ago. The simplest and most-studied liquid crystals are made of rod-shaped …

Ferroelectric liquid crystals are materials that have a remnant and electrically invertible polar
order. Columnar liquid crystals with a ferroelectric nature have potential use in ultrahigh …

In the recent two decades liquid crystal science has contributed significantly to the
understanding of mirror symmetry breaking and spontaneous emergence of chirality in …

Nematic liquid crystals (NLCs) are the prime example of a liquid medium with an apolar
orientational order. In the past couple of years, the ferroelectric nematic (FN) phase has …