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) …

Liquid crystals have been intensively studied as functional materials. Recently, integration of
various disciplines has led to new directions in the design of functional liquid‐crystalline …

Ionic liquid crystals have emerged as a new class of functional soft materials in the last two
decades, and they exhibit synergistic characteristics of ionic liquids and liquid crystals such …

Nanostructured materials with precisely defined and water-bicontinuous 1-nm-scale pores
are highly sought after as advanced materials for next-generation nanofiltration membranes …

The transition from the current “linear” economy to a “circular” economy with a strong focus
on the recovery and reuse of materials and resources undoubtedly necessitates efficient and …

Electronic devices are ubiquitous and inorganic semiconductors generally serve as their
active components. Recently, organic semiconductors, ie, conjugated polymers, oligomers …

Self-assembly of ionic molecules into hierarchical ordered structures is a promising route to
new types of solid electrolytes with enhanced ion transport. Herein, we report a liquid …

Exciton‐polaritons, in which the electronic state of an excited organic molecule and a
photonic state are strongly coupled, can form a Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) at room …

New isoporous nanofiltration composite membranes were fabricated by photo-
polymerization of thin films of the hexagonal columnar mesophase of the supramolecular …

Hydrogen (H)-bonded C3 symmetrical discotic liquid crystals (DLCs)(Hpz-Cn-TP, n= 6, 8, 9)
forming segregated columnar assembly are described. The columnar architectures are …