Organic dyes have been used as gain medium for lasers since the 1960s, long before the
advent of today's organic electronic devices. Organic gain materials are highly attractive for …

Liquid crystals (LCs) are omnipresent in living matter, whose chirality is an elegant and
distinct feature in certain plant tissues, the cuticles of crabs, beetles, arthropods, and …

Developing bioinspired camouflage materials that can adaptively change color in the visible
and infrared (IR) regions is an intriguing but challenging task. Herein, we report an emerging …

Existing circularly polarized luminescence materials can hardly satisfy the requirements of
both large luminescence dissymmetry factor and high luminescent quantum yield, which …

Circularly polarized luminescent (CPL) materials have received significant attention in the
field of fundamental science recently. These materials offer substantial advancement of …

Blue phase (BP) liquid crystals are chiral fluids wherein millions of molecules self-assemble
into cubic lattices that are on the order of hundred nanometers. As the unit cell sizes of BPs …

Photonic polymer coatings that can adaptively respond to the constant changes of
surrounding environments are of profound significance for diverse applications such as …

3D photonic nanostructures with desirable functionalities in the visible light region and
beyond have been recently given vast and increasing attentions because of the ability to …

Electrically responsive photonic crystals represent one of the most promising intelligent
materials for technological applications in optoelectronics. In this research, a polymer …

3D photonic nanostructures with intrinsic chirality have recently entered the research
limelight due to their fundamental importance and potential technological applications. Blue …