The field of chiral inorganic nanostructures is rapidly expanding. It started from the
observation of strong circular dichroism during the synthesis of individual nanoparticles …

Since the discovery of the liquid‐crystalline state in 1888, liquid crystal science has made
great advances through fusion with various technologies and disciplines. Recently, new …

Recent experimental realization of ferroelectric nematic liquid crystalline phases stimulated
material development and numerous experimental studies of these phases, guided by their …

Spontaneous mirror symmetry breaking by formation of chiral structures from achiral building
blocks and emergent polar order are phenomena rarely observed in fluids. Separately, they …

Light-driven phenomena both in living systems and nonliving materials have enabled truly
fascinating and incredible dynamic architectures with terrific forms and functions. Recently …

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 …

Ferroelectric ordering in liquids is a fundamental question of physics. Here, we show that
ferroelectric ordering of the molecules causes the formation of recently reported splay …

Different liquid crystalline phases with long-range orientational but not positional order, so-
called nematic phases, are scarce. New nematic phases are rarely discovered, and such an …

DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201500340 electric/magnetic field, heat, and light,[9] thus enabling
applications such as temperature indicators,[3] sensors of minute quantities of gases,[10, 11] …

Recently, a polar, rod‐like liquid‐crystalline material was reported to exhibit two distinct
nematic mesophases (termed N and NX) separated by a weakly first‐order transition …