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) …

Soft robots are composed of compliant materials that facilitate high degrees of freedom,
shape‐change adaptability, and safer interaction with humans. An attractive choice of …

Manual intervention in the self‐organization of soft matter to obtain a desired superstructure
is a complex but significant project. Specifically, optical components made fully or partially …

The use of liquid crystals for the fabrication of displays incorporated in technological devices
(TVs, calculators, screens of eBook's, tablets, watches) demonstrates the relevance that …

Membrane separations are critically important in areas ranging from health care and
analytical chemistry to bioprocessing and water purification. An ideal nanoporous …

Electronic devices are ubiquitous and inorganic semiconductors generally serve as their
active components. Recently, organic semiconductors, ie, conjugated polymers, oligomers …

The alignment control of discotic columnar liquid crystals (LCs), featuring a low motility of the
constituent molecules and thus having a large viscosity, is a challenging task. Here we show …

The use of metallo phthalocyanines (MPcs) in technological applications requires certain
methodological approaches for thin film fabrication. Among these applications the …

Stacked teacups inspired the idea that columnar assemblies of stacked bowl-shaped
molecules may exhibit a unique dynamic behavior, unlike usual assemblies of planar disc …

The thin‐film directed self‐assembly of molecular building blocks into oriented nanostructure
arrays enables next‐generation lithography at the sub‐5 nm scale. Currently, the fabrication …