Polymer-based responsive structural color materials are polymers with ordered
microstructures that can change colors. They offer unique advantages and present a novel …

Entangling strands in a well-ordered manner can produce useful effects, from shoelaces and
fishing nets to brown paper packages tied up with strings. At the nanoscale, non-crystalline …

Mechanically responsive textiles have transformative potential in many areas from fashion to
healthcare. Cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers have strong mechanochromic responses …

The concept of topological energy bands and their manifestations have been demonstrated
in condensed matter systems as a fantastic paradigm toward unprecedented physical …

Mechanochromic luminescence (MCL) materials, which are stimulated by mechanical force,
have several promising advantages, such as controllable stimulus response, reversible …

Emerging energy harvesting yarns, via triboelectric effects, have wide application prospects
in new‐generation wearable electronics. However, few studies have been carried out …

Structural colors widespread in nature have been theoretically in‐depth studied and
manufactured through the artificial approaches such as self‐assembly and nanolithography …

The quantized bulk quadrupole moment has so far revealed a non-trivial boundary state with
lower-dimensional topological edge states and in-gap zero-dimensional corner modes. In …

Pursuing topological phases in natural and artificial materials is one of the central topics in
modern physical science and engineering. In classical magnetic systems, spin waves (or …

Color is an excellent carrier of information between organisms. Photonic elastomers that
convert abstract mechanical information into intuitive color information have shown great …