Incorporating molecular photoswitches into various materials provides unique opportunities
for controlling their properties and functions with high spatiotemporal resolution using …

Precise control over molecular movement is of fundamental and practical importance in
physics, biology, and chemistry. At nanoscale, the peculiar functioning principles and the …

Photodeformable liquid crystal polymers (LCPs) that adapt their shapes in response to light
have aroused a dramatic growth of interest in the past decades, since light as a stimulus …

The manipulation of small amounts of liquids has applications ranging from biomedical
devices to liquid transfer. Direct light-driven manipulation of liquids, especially when …

Light-driven phenomena both in living systems and nonliving materials have enabled truly
fascinating and incredible dynamic architectures with terrific forms and functions. Recently …

A reconfigurable actuator is a stimuli-responsive structure that can be programmed to adapt
different shapes under identical stimulus. Reconfigurable actuators that function without …

Nature provides much inspiration for the design of materials capable of motion upon
exposure to external stimuli, and many examples of such active systems have been created …

Develo** adaptive materials with geometries that change in response to external stimuli
provides fundamental insights into the links between the physical forces involved and the …

Swimmers at liquid/air interfaces have drawn enormous attention because of their potential
applications. Described herein is one novel light‐driven swimmer based on a bimorph …

Remote light exposure of photoresponsive liquid crystalline polymers has drawn great
attention over the last years as an attractive strategy to generate mechanical work with high …