Coffee-ring effect is an omnipresent phenomenon, it features the circular deposition on the
surface after the evaporation of a droplet containing particles. Ever since the seminal report …

Phase separation is emerging as a paradigm to explain the self-assembly and organization
of membraneless bodies in the cell. Recent advances show that this principle also extends …

The dielectric tensor is a physical descriptor of fundamental light–matter interactions,
characterizing anisotropic materials with principal refractive indices and optic axes. Despite …

Controversy over artwork's authenticity is ongoing despite numerous technologies for
copyright protection. Artists should build their own ways to protect the authority, but these are …

Drying of biologically-relevant sessile droplets, including passive systems such as DNA,
proteins, plasma, and blood, as well as active microbial systems comprising bacterial and …

DNA is an anisotropic, water-attracting, and biocompatible material, an ideal building block
for hydrogel. The alignment of the anisotropic DNA chains is essential to maximize hydrogel …

Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) are intriguing as a matrix for plasmonic metasurfaces made
of gold nanorods (GNRs) because of their distinctive properties, including renewability …

DNA‐based gels are attractive materials as they allow intuitive rational design, respond to
external physicochemical stimuli, and show great potential for biomedical applications …

Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) represent crystalline materials constructed from
combinations of metal and organic units to often yield anisotropic porous structures and …

Biomaterials, which are substances interacting with biological systems, have been
extensively explored to understand living organisms and obtain scientific inspiration (such …