Mechanical metamaterials are engineered materials with unconventional mechanical
behavior that originates from artificially programmed microstructures along with intrinsic …

Metamaterials are being applied to the development and construction of many new devices
throughout the electromagnetic spectrum. Limitations posed by the metamaterial operational …

Nanoparticles coated with DNA molecules can be programmed to self-assemble into three-
dimensional superlattices. Such superlattices can be made from nanoparticles with different …

Colloids are abundant in nature, science, and technology, with examples ranging from milk
to quantum dots and the colloidal atom paradigm. Similarly, liquid crystal ordering is …

Featured Application Nanomaterial-doped liquid crystals. Abstract The research field of
liquid crystals and their applications is recently changing from being largely focused on …

Optical metamaterials consist of artificially engineered structures exhibiting unprecedented
optical properties beyond natural materials. Optical metamaterials offer many novel …

Liquid crystal nanoscience, a field exploring the mutually beneficial combination of the
unique properties of nanoscale materials and fluid, yet ordered liquid crystalline phases, is …

Hybrid nanomaterials are molecular or colloidal‐level combinations of organic and
inorganic materials, or otherwise strongly dissimilar materials. They are often, though not …

Practical guest–host devices in which dichroic dye molecules follow electrical switching of a
liquid crystal host remain elusive for decades despite promising efficient displays and …

Metamaterials bring subwavelength resonating structures together to overcome the
limitations of conventional materials. The realization of active metadevices has been an …