Smart soft materials are envisioned to be the building blocks of the next generation of
advanced devices and digitally augmented technologies. In this context, liquid crystals (LCs) …

Supramolecular chirality is involved not only in biological events such as gene
communication, replication, and enzyme catalysis but also in artificial self-assembly systems …

Polymer-based circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) materials with the advantage of
diversified structure, easy fabrication, high thermal stability, and tunable properties have …

The development of chiral optical active materials with switchable circularly polarized
luminescence (CPL) signals remains a challenge. Here an azoarene‐based circularly …

Diarylethene (DAE) photoswitches, known for their reversible photoinduced cyclization and
cycloreversion reactions, have shown great promise in various fields such as optical data …

Endowing a cholesteric liquid crystal elastomer (CLCE) exhibiting a helicoidal nanostructure
with dynamically tailorable functionalities is of paramount significance for its emerging …

Infrared (IR) adaptation phenomena are ubiquitous in nature and biological systems. Taking
inspiration from natural creatures, researchers have devoted extensive efforts for develo** …

Circularly polarized luminescent (CPL) materials have received significant attention in the
field of fundamental science recently. These materials offer substantial advancement of …

Self-assembled architectures of soft matter have fascinated scientists for centuries due to
their unique physical properties originated from controllable orientational and/or positional …

Photonic actuators, serving as an emerging kind of intelligent stimuli‐responsive material,
can exhibit the abilities to change their structural colors/fluorescence and shapes under …