Photo-responsive polymers have attracted increasing attention due to the unique
advantages that light stimulus provides, such as high sensitivity, precise selectivity, temporal …

Electrospun nanofiber mats are usually applied in fields where their high specific surface
area and small pore sizes are important, such as biotechnology or filtration. Optically, they …

Electrospun polymer-liquid crystal (PLC) fibers have potential applications such as wearable
sensors and adaptive textiles because of their rapid response and high flexibility. However …

Polymer fibers with liquid crystals (LCs) in the core have potential as autonomous sensors of
airborne volatile organic compounds (VOCs), with a high surface-to-volume ratio enabling …

Azobenzene-based chiral dopants in cholesteric liquid crystals are of interest since the
properties they induce in the liquid crystal could be tuned photochemically. Here, we use a …

Aggregation-induced emission (AIE) is a unique photophysical process, and its emergence
brings a revolutionary change in luminescence. However, AIE-based research has been …

Electrospinning of polymer solutions is a multifaceted process that depends on the careful
balancing of many parameters to achieve a desired outcome, in many cases including …

The design of soft materials that change their optical properties in response to a variety of
external stimuli is one step toward mimicking the dynamic color changing systems that are …

Photoswitchable nanofibers and nanocomposite fibers containing plasmonic nanoparticles
have attracted a great deal of interest in optical and plasmonic devices. Herein …

Electrospinning serves as a versatile means of understanding the effects of strong cylindrical
confinement on encapsulated liquid crystals (LCs) and is a promising technique for …