Self-assembled liquid crystal architectures for soft matter photonics

LL Ma, CY Li, JT Pan, YE Ji, C Jiang, R Zheng… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Self-assembled architectures of soft matter have fascinated scientists for centuries due to
their unique physical properties originated from controllable orientational and/or positional …

Structural color from cellulose nanocrystals or chitin nanocrystals: self-assembly, optics, and applications

B Frka-Petesic, TG Parton, C Honorato-Rios… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Widespread concerns over the impact of human activity on the environment have resulted in
a desire to replace artificial functional materials with naturally derived alternatives. As such …

Holographic metasurface gas sensors for instantaneous visual alarms

I Kim, WS Kim, K Kim, MA Ansari, MQ Mehmood… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The rapid detection of biological and chemical substances in real time is particularly
important for public health and environmental monitoring and in the military sector. If the …

Hydrogel ionotronics

C Yang, Z Suo - Nature Reviews Materials, 2018 - nature.com
An ionotronic device functions by a hybrid circuit of mobile ions and mobile electrons.
Hydrogels are stretchable, transparent, ionic conductors that can transmit electrical signals …

Ferroelectric nematic liquid-crystalline phases

N Sebastián, M Čopič, A Mertelj - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
Recent experimental realization of ferroelectric nematic liquid crystalline phases stimulated
material development and numerous experimental studies of these phases, guided by their …

Stimuli‐responsive dynamic metaholographic displays with designer liquid crystal modulators

I Kim, MA Ansari, MQ Mehmood, WS Kim… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Flat optics, realized by the artificially created 2D material platform called optical
metasurfaces, is currently undergoing a science‐to‐technology transition. However,“real …

Weyl exceptional rings in a three-dimensional dissipative cold atomic gas

Y Xu, ST Wang, LM Duan - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
Three-dimensional topological Weyl semimetals can generally support a zero-dimensional
Weyl point characterized by a quantized Chern number or a one-dimensional Weyl nodal …