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Materiales
Biocompatible Liquid Crystal Elastomer Optical Fiber Actuator for In Vivo Endoscopic Navigation and Laser Ablation Therapy
05/12/2025 -
Biocompatible liquid crystal elastomer optical fibers achieve a physiological phase transition temperature (37.6 °C) with a waveguide structure, enabling low‐loss light transmission (0.76...
Dual‐Handed Circularly Polarized Luminescence from Polymer Fiber‐Confined and Stabilized Perovskite Nanocrystals in Hydrated Liquid Crystals
05/12/2025 -
A dual‐handed circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) composite is achieved by confining perovskite nanocrystals within polymer nanofibers and integrating them into a chiral cellulose nanocrystal...
Liquid Crystal Elastomers Under Confinement: A Review of Template‐Based Fabrication and Applications
28/11/2025 -
Template‐assisted confinement offers powerful ways to control the alignment, structure, and function of liquid crystal elastomers. This review highlights several templating strategies and details...
Self‐Sustained, Continuous Jumping of a Light‐Driven Electronics‐Free Insect‐Scale Soft Robot
01/12/2025 -
This work presents a 301 mg soft robot capable of continuous, autonomous jumping with energy harvesting, actuation, and control embedded in their physical structure without electronics. Coupling...
Polarized Luminescence in Halide Perovskite Nanomaterials
26/11/2025 -
This review examines polarized luminescence in halide perovskite nanomaterials, dissecting structural engineering strategies for the generation of LPL and chiral CPL. It analyzes chirality transfer...
Stimuli‐Responsive Afterglow from Luminescent Liquid Crystal Elastomers
20/11/2025 -
An active glow luminescent system for encoding, signaling, and tracking in dark environments has been developed by integrating inorganic ultralong afterglow phosphors with adaptive liquid crystal...
Highly Robust and Intrinsic Flame‐Retardant Polyphenylene Benzodiazole/Liquid Crystal Polyarylate Composites for Flexible Triboelectric Nanogenerators in Harsh Environment
19/11/2025 -
Through interface molecular engineering design, intrinsically flame‐retardant and high‐temperature‐resistant triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) based on polyphenylene benzodiazole fabric...
Novel Insights into Solid‐State Batteries Through Phase Modulations: Dielectric Phase and Liquid Crystal Phase
02/11/2025 -
The pursuit of safer, higher‐energy‐density batteries has positioned all‐solid‐state batteries (ASSBs) at the forefront of energy storage researches. Overcoming the ionic conductivity and...
Self‐Adaptive Mechanical Metasurface Enabling Zero‐Power‐Consumption Thermal Management of Electronic Devices
29/10/2025 -
Effective thermal management is essential for ensuring the reliability of electronic devices. In this paper, a zero‐power‐consumption, self‐adaptive mechanical metasurface is implemented to...
Enhancing Thermal Conductivity in Low Dielectric Polybutadiene via a Liquid Crystal Ordering Effect
28/10/2025 -
A liquid crystal molecule is designed and synthesized with triphenyl mesogen and styrene end groups, which can cross‐link in polybutadiene to form a network bearing LC polymers. This polymer with...
Universal Water Transfer Printing Enables Scalable Structural Coloration of Responsive Textile Fibers for Wearable Electronics
25/10/2025 -
Meter‐long core‐multishelled electronic fibers are judiciously fabricated via the integration of water transfer printing and coaxial extrusion, which consist of radially aligned CLC photonic...
Accessing Multi‐Material Liquid Crystal Elastomers Via Digitally Programmable Network Topologies
22/10/2025 -
A digital programming strategy to control the network topology of liquid crystal elastomers is proposed. This approach utilizes sequential orthogonal reactions, namely digital light‐triggered...
Touch‐Driven Bi‐Chiral Superstructures for Nested Encryption of Multiplexed Optical Information
15/10/2025 -
A touch‐driven nested optical encryption system is proposed via a bi‐chiral superstructure. Structural colors and vectorial holography are combined with precise control of Bragg reflection to...
π‐Extended Viologen‐Based Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystal Reactive Mesogen: Uniaxial Orientation and Photopolymerization for Transmittance and Color Controllable Electrochromic Smart Glass (Adv. Mater. 40/2025)
09/10/2025 -
Smart GlassIn article number 2503367, Kwang‐Un Jeong and co‐workers developed electrochromic smart glasses with controllable color and polarization by employing π‐extended viologen‐based...
Reconfigurable Liquid Crystal‐Based Physical Unclonable Function Integrating Optical and Electrical Responses (Adv. Mater. 39/2025)
08/10/2025 -
Reconfigurable Physical Unclonable FunctionIn article number 2504288, Dong Ki Yoon, Moon Jong Han, Hee Seong Yun, and their colleagues develop reconfigurable physical unclonable function (PUF)...
Electric Field‐Induced Alignment of Fibers/CNTs in Triply Periodic Minimal Surface‐Structured PDMS Composites
04/09/2025 -
A novel electric field‐assisted approach for carbon nanotube and fiber‐reinforced polydimethylsiloxane composites is developed. Triply periodic minimal surface‐structured ternary composites are...
Temperature‐Tunable Heliconical and Ferroelectric Nematics for White Lasing
06/09/2025 -
The discovery of the ferroelectric nematic (NF) phase in 2017 and the spontaneous symmetry‐breaking of the ferroelectric twist‐bend nematic (NTBF)phase in 2024 have made major breakthroughs in...
Geometric‐Bifurcation Methods for Dual Order‐Disorder Transitions: Applications to the Isotropic‐to‐Smectic A Phase Transformation
17/08/2025 -
Geometric‐thermodynamic methodology for the study of the energy landscape of Isotropic‐Smectic‐A transition (I‐SmA) with dual non‐conserved order parameters. The left panel shows: (1) the...
Adaptive Metaskins for Active and Passive Thermal Camouflage
16/08/2025 -
Based on the synergistic integration of reconfigurable MXene micro‐wrinkles and a temperature‐sensitive substrate, an adaptive metaskin that can operate in either active or passive modes is...
Bio‐Inspired Artificial Muscle‐Tendon Complex of Liquid Crystal Elastomer for Bidirectional Afferent‐Efferent Signaling
17/08/2025 -
The Muscle–tendon complex (MTC)‐inspired Liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) artificial muscle integrates actuation (efferent) and proprioceptive sensing (afferent) by combining contractile nematic...
