This review provides an overview of the current state‐of‐the‐art of the emerging field of
flexible multifunctional sensors for wearable and robotic applications. In these application …

Liquid-crystal lasers are a burgeoning area in the field of soft-matter photonics that may
herald a new era of ultrathin, highly versatile laser sources. Such lasers encompass a …

Tuning the wavelength of a laser emission by mechanical deformation is not as implausible
as it may seem. This communication proves that it can be done with cholesteric liquid crystal …

Ordered molecular materials are increasingly used in active electronic and photonic organic
devices. In this progress report we discuss whether the self‐assembling properties and …

We demonstrate a tunable and omnidirectional microlaser in the form of a microdroplet of a
dye-doped, cholesteric liquid crystal in a carrier fluid. The cholesteric forms a Bragg-onion …

A cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) formed by chiral molecules represents a self-assembled
one-dimensionally periodic helical structure with pitch p in the submicrometer and …

Twist structure liquid crystals (TSLCs) have attracted increasing attention in photonic
applications due to their distinct properties: Bragg reflection, scattering, and optical rotation …

We have investigated the physical and optical properties of the left-handed chiral dopant ZLI-
811 mixed in a nematic liquid crystal (LC) host BL006. The solubility of ZLI-811 in BL006 at …

I started the work on liquid crystal colloids around the year 2000 as a continuation of our
experiments on forces between surfaces in liquid crystals. We were using the atomic force …

Laser action in a dye‐doped ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC)—at the edge of the photonic
stop band—has been demonstrated for the first time. The FLC used is a multicomponent …