Light-driven phenomena both in living systems and nonliving materials have enabled truly
fascinating and incredible dynamic architectures with terrific forms and functions. Recently …

Photochromic materials have been drawing considerable attention owing to their potential
applications including optical devices, logic gates, data recording and storage, and …

Luminescent liquid crystal (LC) materials have attracted significant interest for organic
optoelectronic applications, especially for linearly polarised emission, because of their …

With our new home‐built circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) instrument, we measured
fluorescence and CPL spectra of the enantiomeric pairs of two quasi‐isomeric BODIPY …

Charge carrier mobility is a central property that characterizes the performances of organic
semiconductors and is mostly measured in field‐effect transistors. High mobility values are …

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

A great variety of tunable multifunctional materials can be produced by combining
nanoparticles and liquid crystals. Typically, the tunability of such soft nanocomposites is …

In order to seek the balance point between liquid crystallinity and high efficiency emission,
two novel aggregation-induced emission-based (AIE) liquid crystal materials of TPE-PBN …

Liquid crystals are often regard as a fourth state phase of matter alongside solids, liquids
and gases. It has been estimated that one out of every ten new synthetic compounds is a …

Photoresponsive materials (PRMs) have long been a hot topic and photo‐modulated smart
surface is very appealing. Particularly, liquid crystalline PRMs are able to amplify and …