<? pag\vskip-16pt?> Harnessing linear and angular momenta of light is one of the
cornerstones in modern optics and has found tremendous applications in optical circuits …

Optical tweezers, tools based on strongly focused light, enable optical trap**,
manipulation, and characterisation of a wide range of microscopic and nanoscopic …

Optical forces are involved in many physical processes and are used routinely in the
laboratory for manipulating and cooling matter, from the micro down to the quantum scales. It …

Supramolecular and macromolecular functional helical superstructures are ubiquitous in
nature and display an impressive catalog of intriguing and elegant properties and …

3D photonic nanostructures with desirable functionalities in the visible light region and
beyond have been recently given vast and increasing attentions because of the ability to …

Lateral optical forces induced by linearly polarized laser beams have been predicted to
deflect dipolar particles with opposite chiralities toward opposite transversal directions …

The quest for interesting properties and phenomena in liquid crystals toward their
employment in nondisplay application is an intense and vibrant endeavor. Remarkable …

The lack of mirror symmetry, chirality, plays a fundamental role in physics, chemistry and life
sciences. The passive separation of entities that only differ by their handedness without …

By utilizing a microfluidics approach, we prepared uniformly sized cholesteric liquid crystal
(CLC) droplets from MLC-2132 doped with a chiral dopant (S)-4-cyano-4′-(2-methylbutyl) …

Herein we describe a highly responsive optical biosensor based on dynamic complex liquid
crystal (LC) emulsions. These emulsions are simple to prepare and consist of immiscible …