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) …

Optical forces, generally arising from changes of field gradients or linear momentum carried
by photons, form the basis for optical trapping and manipulation. Advances in optical forces …

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 (LCs) are ubiquitous in display technologies. The orientational ordering in the
nematic phase of LCs gives rise to structural anisotropy, the ability to form topological …

Soft matter covers a wide range of materials based on linear or branched polymers, gels and
rubbers, amphiphilic (macro) molecules, colloids, and self-assembled structures. These …

Herein we describe a highly responsive optical biosensor based on dynamic complex liquid
crystal (LC) emulsions. These emulsions are simple to prepare and consist of immiscible …

Self-assembly offers unique possibilities for fabricating nanostructures, with different
morphologies and properties, typically from vapour or liquid phase precursors. Molecular …

Active matter composed of self-propelled interacting units holds a major promise for the
extraction of useful work from its seemingly chaotic dynamics. Streamlining active matter is …

The self‐assembly of liquid crystals (LCs) is a fascinating method for controlling the
organization of discrete molecules into nanostructured functional materials. Although LCs …

We report a new class of dynamically reconfigurable complex colloids comprising
immiscible liquid crystals (LCs) and fluorocarbon oils. Producing stable spherical droplets …