Hydrogen-bonded liquid crystalline polymers have emerged as promising “smart”
supramolecular functional materials with stimuli-responsive, self-healing, and recyclable …

In a liquid crystal (LC) state, specific orientations and alignments of LC molecules produce
outstanding anisotropy in structure and properties, followed by diverse optoelectronic …

Self-assembly of ionic molecules into hierarchical ordered structures is a promising route to
new types of solid electrolytes with enhanced ion transport. Herein, we report a liquid …

We have developed a two-dimensional (2D) liquid-crystalline (LC) nanostructured water-
treatment membrane showing high virus rejection ability (over 99.99997% for bacteriophage …

Liquid crystal polymers (LCPs) have gained tremendous attention in recent years due to
their great potentials from fabrication of responsive actuators and sensors to construction of …

Lyotropic self-assembly of ionic surfactants benefits the construction of ion-conductive
pathways but suffers from poor mechanical stability owing to the intrinsic fluidity. Here, a …

Bottom-up methods for the fabrication of nanoporous polymer membranes have numerous
advantages. However, it remains challenging to fabricate nanoporous membranes that are …

Constructing stable nanochannels and nanoconfined environments for ionic liquids holds
significant application value in gas separation, ion channels, and related fields. The …

Liquid crystals have been extensively used in various applications, such as optoelectronic
devices, biomedical applications, sensors and biosensors, and packaging, among others …

We report a one-step method to fabricate a free-standing supramolecular membrane
composed of melamine and barbituric acid coordinated with silver nitrate (Mba–Ag) at the …