Light-driven liquid crystalline materials: from photo-induced phase transitions and property modulations to applications

HK Bisoyi, Q Li - Chemical Reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Light-driven phenomena both in living systems and nonliving materials have enabled truly
fascinating and incredible dynamic architectures with terrific forms and functions. Recently …

Visible light‐driven molecular switches and motors: recent developments and applications

H Wang, HK Bisoyi, X Zhang… - Chemistry–A European …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Inspired by human vision, a diverse range of light‐driven molecular switches and motors
have been developed for fundamental understanding and application in material science …

Stimuli‐driven control of the helical axis of self‐organized soft helical superstructures

HK Bisoyi, TJ Bunning, Q Li - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Supramolecular and macromolecular functional helical superstructures are ubiquitous in
nature and display an impressive catalog of intriguing and elegant properties and …

Turn-on mode circularly polarized luminescence in self-organized cholesteric superstructure for active photonic applications

S Lin, S Zeng, Z Li, Q Fan, J Guo - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Developing circularly polarized luminescence (CPL)-active materials with a large
luminescence dissymmetry factor (g lum) or stimulus responses has evoked a lot of interest …

Photoprogrammable mesogenic soft helical architectures: a promising avenue toward future chiro‐optics

ZG Zheng, YQ Lu, Q Li - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Mesogenic soft materials, having single or multiple mesogen moieties per molecule,
commonly exhibit typical self‐organization characteristics, which promotes the formation of …

Strong CPL of achiral AIE-active dyes induced by supramolecular self-assembly in chiral nematic liquid crystals (AIE-N*-LCs)

X Li, W Hu, Y Wang, Y Quan, Y Cheng - Chemical Communications, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Chiral binaphthyl enantiomers (Guest 1) were doped into commercial nematic liquid crystals
(N-LCs, Host E7) to form chiral nematic liquid crystals (N*-LCs). The new ternary AIE-N*-LCs …

Photochemically and thermally driven full‐color reflection in a self‐organized helical superstructure enabled by a halogen‐bonded chiral molecular switch

H Wang, HK Bisoyi, L Wang, AM Urbas… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Supramolecular approaches toward the fabrication of functional materials and systems have
been an enabling endeavor. Recently, halogen bonding has been harnessed as a …

Tunable circularly polarized luminescent supramolecular systems: approaches and applications

XM Chen, S Zhang, X Chen, Q Li - ChemPhotoChem, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Circularly polarized luminescence is an important optical property that combines chirality
and luminescence in molecular and supramolecular systems. Recently, tunable circularly …

Strong aggregation‐induced CPL response promoted by chiral emissive nematic liquid crystals (N*‐LCs)

X Li, Q Li, Y Wang, Y Quan, D Chen… - Chemistry–A European …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper we designed a kind of aggregation‐induced emission (AIE) chiral fluorescence
emitters (R/S‐BINOL‐CN enantiomers) in the aggregate state. Chiral emissive nematic …

Driving a liquid crystal phase transition using a photochromic hydrazone

MJ Moran, M Magrini, DM Walba… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The dynamic manipulation of the properties of soft matter can lead to adaptive functional
materials that can be used in advanced applications. Here we report on a new chiral dopant …