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 …

Bioelectronic transducing surfaces that are nanometric in size have been the main route to
detect single molecules. Though enabling the study of rarer events, such methodologies are …

Responsive polymer systems have the ability to change properties or behavior in response
to external stimuli. The properties of responsive polymer systems can be fine‐tuned by …

Liquid crystals constitute a fascinating class of soft condensed matter characterized by the
counterintuitive combination of fluidity and long-range order. Today they are best known for …

Nanoscience includes the study of objects and systems in which at least one dimension is 1-
100 nm. The objects studied in this range of sizes are larger than atoms and small …

Biomaterials, traditionally defined as materials used in medical devices, have been used
since antiquity, but recently their degree of sophistication has increased significantly …

The liquid crystalline state of matter arises from orientation-dependent, non-covalent
interactions between molecules within condensed phases. Because the balance of …

We introduce and demonstrate the use of colloidal silver plasmon-resonant particles (PRPs)
as optical reporters in typical biological assays. PRPs are ultrabright, nanosized optical …

The spontaneous assembly of phospholipids at planar interfaces between thermotropic
liquid crystals and aqueous phases gives rise to patterned orientations of the liquid crystals …