Self-assembled architectures of soft matter have fascinated scientists for centuries due to
their unique physical properties originated from controllable orientational and/or positional …

Widespread concerns over the impact of human activity on the environment have resulted in
a desire to replace artificial functional materials with naturally derived alternatives. As such …

The rapid detection of biological and chemical substances in real time is particularly
important for public health and environmental monitoring and in the military sector. If the …

An ionotronic device functions by a hybrid circuit of mobile ions and mobile electrons.
Hydrogels are stretchable, transparent, ionic conductors that can transmit electrical signals …

Recent experimental realization of ferroelectric nematic liquid crystalline phases stimulated
material development and numerous experimental studies of these phases, guided by their …

Essentially, all motion in living organisms emerges from the collective action of biological
molecular machines transforming chemical energy, originally harvested from light, into …

Flat optics, realized by the artificially created 2D material platform called optical
metasurfaces, is currently undergoing a science‐to‐technology transition. However,“real …

Liquid crystals are widely known for their technological uses in displays, electro-optics,
photonics and nonlinear optics, but these applications typically rely on defining and …

Animal morphogenesis arises from the complex interplay between multiple mechanical and
biochemical processes with mutual feedback. Developing an effective, coarse-grained …

Three-dimensional topological Weyl semimetals can generally support a zero-dimensional
Weyl point characterized by a quantized Chern number or a one-dimensional Weyl nodal …