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

Spontaneous deracemizations is a challenging, multidisciplinary subject in current chirality
research. In the absence of any chiral inductors, an achiral substance or a racemic …

3D photonic nanostructures with desirable functionalities in the visible light region and
beyond have been recently given vast and increasing attentions because of the ability to …

The ability to control both the mobility and chemical compositions of microliter-scale
aqueous droplets is an essential prerequisite for next-generation open surface microfluidics …

The engineering of optical and acoustic material functionalities via construction of ordered
local and global architectures on various length scales commensurate with and well below …

Soft matter covers a wide range of materials based on linear or branched polymers, gels and
rubbers, amphiphilic (macro) molecules, colloids, and self-assembled structures. These …

Stimuli-interactive structural color (SC) of a block copolymer (BCP) photonic crystal (PC)
uses reversible alteration of the PC using external fluids and applied forces. The origin of the …

A plethora of living organisms are equipped with smart functionalities that are usually rooted
in their surface micro/nanostructures or underlying muscle tissues. Inspired by nature …

Knots and knotted fields enrich physical phenomena ranging from DNA and molecular
chemistry to the vortices of fluid flows and textures of ordered media. Liquid crystals provide …

A phenomenological free energy model is proposed to describe the behavior of smectic
liquid crystals, an intermediate phase that exhibits orientational order and layering at the …