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 (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 …

The availability of helical assemblies of plasmonic nanoparticles with precisely controlled
and tunable structures can play a key role in the future development of chiral plasmonics …

Mirror symmetry breaking in materials is a fascinating phenomenon that has practical
implications for various optoelectronic technologies. Chiral plasmonic materials are …

Responsive structural colors generated by the geometrical deformation of synthetic
nanomaterials with a periodic skeleton corresponding to light wavelength through …

Aggregation-induced emission (AIE)-based circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) has
been recognized as a promising pathway for developing chiroptical materials with high …

Organic chiral nanofilaments are part of an important class of nanoscale chiral materials that
has recently been receiving significant attention largely due to their potential use in …

Topological defects in the orientational order that appear in thin slabs of a nematic liquid
crystal, as seen in the standard schlieren texture, behave as a random quasi–two …

The vast majority of nanomaterials studied in light of their ability to transmit chirality to or
amplify their chirality in a surrounding medium, constitute an achiral core with chirality solely …

Herein, an epoch-making method based on bottom-up templating is proposed for the
fabrication of a chiral nanoporous film that provides a chiral environment in which to confine …