Infrared (IR) adaptation phenomena are ubiquitous in nature and biological systems. Taking
inspiration from natural creatures, researchers have devoted extensive efforts for developing …

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

Supramolecular and macromolecular functional helical superstructures are ubiquitous in
nature and display an impressive catalog of intriguing and elegant properties and …

The synthesis and characterisation of several members of the 1, ω-bis (4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-
yl) alkane (CB n CB) and the 1-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yloxy)-ω-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yl) …

This chapter presents the developments on soft materials driven by photothermal effect of
various photothermal agents. It discusses the combination of well‐known soft materials such …

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 …

The recently discovered ferroelectric nematic (NF) liquid crystals (LCs) with over 0.04 C m−
2 ferroelectric polarization and 104 relative dielectric constants, coupled with sub …

Smart glass offers dynamic control over the transmission of light to address various needs in
energy conservation, privacy, and information display; yet, most of the existing technologies …

Metasurfaces are flat arrays of nanostructures that allow exquisite control of phase and
amplitude of incident light. Although metasurfaces offer new active element for both …

Circularly polarized luminescence is an important optical property that combines chirality
and luminescence in molecular and supramolecular systems. Recently, tunable circularly …