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 …

Structural color can be produced by nanoperiodic dielectric structures using soft materials.
Chiral photonic elastomers (CPEs) produced from elastic chiral liquid crystal molecules can …

Abstract Recently discovered reflective Pancharatnam–Berry phase (PB phase) from chiral
anisotropic media (eg, cholesteric liquid crystal, CLC) has aroused great interest in the …

Chiral nanostructures featuring the unique optical activity have attracted broad interests from
scientists. The typical polarization rotation of transmitted light is usually wavelength …

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 …

As the vital elements for building environments, windows are utilized to bring light as well as
thermal irradiation into the interior places and afford the medium for the communication …

Living organisms in nature have amazing control over their color, shape, and morphology in
response to environmental stimuli for camouflage, communication, or reproduction. Inspired …

Cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers (CLCEs) are soft and dynamic photonic elements that
couple the circularly polarized structural color from the cholesteric helix to the viscoelasticity …

We have developed a cellulose nanocrystal-based nanocomposite photonic film with a
sandwich structure to mimic the shell structure of the Chrysina genus of beetles. The …