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) …

Infrared (IR) adaptation phenomena are ubiquitous in nature and biological systems. Taking
inspiration from natural creatures, researchers have devoted extensive efforts for developing …

Self-assembled architectures of soft matter have fascinated scientists for centuries due to
their unique physical properties originated from controllable orientational and/or positional …

The ability to manipulate the structure and function of promising nanosystems via energy
input and external stimuli is emerging as an attractive paradigm for developing …

Diarylethene (DAE) photoswitches, known for their reversible photoinduced cyclization and
cycloreversion reactions, have shown great promise in various fields such as optical data …

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 ability to control light direction with tailored precision via facile means is long‐desired in
science and industry. With the advances in optics, a periodic structure called diffraction …

Supramolecular and macromolecular functional helical superstructures are ubiquitous in
nature and display an impressive catalog of intriguing and elegant properties and …

Modern optics and photonics constantly require break‐through materials and designs in
order to achieve miniature, lightweight, highly tunable, and effective optical devices. One of …

An overview on the properties and applications of polymer and inorganic planar 1D photonic
crystals fabricated from solution is provided here. In the last decades, photonic crystals …