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 have been intensively studied as functional materials. Recently, integration of
various disciplines has led to new directions in the design of functional liquid‐crystalline …

Controlled assembly of inorganic nanoparticles with different compositions, sizes and
shapes into higher-order structures of collective functionalities is a central pursued objective …

Recent years have seen major advances in the developments of both additive
manufacturing concepts and responsive materials. When combined as 4D printing, the …

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

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 …

Windows are vital elements in the built environment that have a large impact on the energy
consumption in indoor spaces, affecting heating and cooling and artificial lighting …

Additive manufacturing with stimuli‐responsive materials—4D printing—is a rapidly growing
field, with direct ink writing allowing deposition of a wide variety of materials. The synthesis …

With the development of optical technologies, transparent materials that provide protection
from light have received considerable attention from scholars. As important channels for …

Chirality is a universal phenomenon in molecular and biological systems, denoting an
asymmetric configurational property where an object cannot be superimposed onto its mirror …