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) …

Infrared (IR) adaptation phenomena are ubiquitous in nature and biological systems. Taking
inspiration from natural creatures, researchers have devoted extensive efforts for develo** …

Nanocellulose is currently in the limelight of extensive research from fundamental science to
technological applications owing to its renewable and carbon‐neutral nature, superior …

Azobenzene is a well‐known derivative of stimulus‐responsive molecular switches and has
shown superior performance as a functional material in biomedical applications. The results …

Self‐assembly, as a typical bottom‐up strategy for the fabrication of functional materials, has
been applied to fabricate chiral materials with subtle chiral nanostructures. The chiral …

Circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) has gained considerable attention in various
systems and has rapidly developed into an emerging research field. To meet the needs of …

A series of macrocyclic azobenzene‐based chiral photoswitches have been judiciously
designed, synthesized, and characterized. In the molecular structures, binaphthyl is …

The fabrication of materials that can switch between circularly polarized luminescence (CPL)
signals is both essential and challenging. Here, two new halogen‐bonded fluorescent …

Two light‐driven chiral fluorescent molecular switches,(R, S, R)‐switch 1 and (R, S, R)‐
switch 2, are prepared by means of hydrogen‐bonded (H‐bonded) assembly of a …

Molecular photoswitches reversibly convert the energy of light into a variety of structural
changes at the molecular level. They can be integrated into smart materials with broad …