Abstract Machines are systems that harness input power to extend or advance function.
Fundamentally, machines are based on the integration of materials with mechanisms to …

Liquid crystal elastomers exhibit large reversible strain and programmable shape
transformations, enabling various applications in soft robotics, dynamic optics, and …

The shape‐shifting behavior of liquid crystal networks (LCNs) and elastomers (LCEs) is a
result of an interplay between their initial geometrical shape and their molecular alignment …

Liquid crystal (LC) based spatial light modulators (SLMs) are a type of versatile device
capable of arbitrarily reconfiguring the wavefront of light. For current commercial LC-SLM …

Phenomena of electrically driven fluid flows, known as electro-osmosis, and particle
transport in a liquid electrolyte, known as electrophoresis, collectively form a subject of …

Dynamics of small particles, both living and inanimate, has fascinated scientists for
centuries. Learning how to control it could open technological opportunities in the …

Microlenses are desired by a wide range of industrial applications while it is always
challenging to make them with diffraction‐limited quality. Here, it is shown that high‐quality …

Gratings composed of cholesteric liquid crystals as an important optical element for
emerging applications such as augmented and virtual reality and are renowned for their …

Sha** the intensity profile of a laser beam is desired by various industrial applications. In
this paper, a new approach is presented to design and fabricate liquid crystal (LC) micro …

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 …