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 …

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

The cholesteric‐liquid‐crystalline structure, which concerns the organization of chromatin,
collagen, chitin, or cellulose, is omnipresent in living matter. In technology, it is found in …

ROY G. BIV is the acronym used around the English-speaking world to aid children in the
memorization of the traditional colors of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue …

Replicating biological patterns is promising for designing materials with multifaceted
properties. Twisted cholesteric liquid crystal patterns are found in the iridescent tessellated …

In this article, bistable cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) light shutters have been fabricated and
the effect of dichroic dye on their morphological and electro-optical properties was studied …

Utilizing sequential layer-by-layer (LBL) coating and subsequent photopolymerization, we
developed circular-polarizing and free-standing mirrors with a broad reflection bandwidth …

Nowadays, with the increasing energy consumption of buildings and the continuous
improvement of human living standards, use of architectural glass with multi-functional …

Self-organization processes are present in many different inorganic, organic, and biological
systems at various length scales and give rise to specific intrinsic physical properties. In the …

Films capable of broadband circular polarization of light are important for many optical
applications. Owing to their intrinsic chiral nematic mesostructure, freestanding films of …