Photoprogrammable Mesogenic Soft Helical Architectures: A Promising Avenue toward Future Chiro‐Optics

Optically Rewritable Transparent Liquid Crystal Displays Enabled by Light-Driven Chiral Fluorescent Molecular Switches

(2019) Juntao Li et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Synthesis and Properties of Chiral Polyazobenzenes with Photoinduced Change in Optical Activity

(2019) Masashi Otaki et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Light‐Activated Liquid Crystalline Hierarchical Architecture Toward Photonics

(2019) Ling‐Ling Ma et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Chirality invertible superstructure mediated active planar optics

(2019) Peng Chen et al.   Nature Communications

Visible‐Light‐Induced Self‐Organized Helical Superstructure in Orientationally Ordered Fluids

(2019) Hao Wang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

1,2-Dithienyldicyanoethene-Based, Visible-Light-Driven, Chiral Fluorescent Molecular Switch: Rewritable Multimodal Photonic Devices

(2019) Juntao Li et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Stimulated transformation of soft helix among helicoidal, heliconical, and their inverse helices

(2019) Cong-long Yuan et al.   Science Advances

Light-Driven Reversible Transformation between Self-Organized Simple Cubic Lattice and Helical Superstructure Enabled by a Molecular Switch Functionalized Nanocage

(2018) Kang Zhou et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Stimuli-Driven Control of the Helical Axis of Self-Organized Soft Helical Superstructures

(2018) Hari Krishna Bisoyi et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Photochemically and Thermally Driven Full-Color Reflection in a Self-Organized Helical Superstructure Enabled by a Halogen-Bonded Chiral Molecular Switch

(2018) Hao Wang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Photochromism into nanosystems: towards lighting up the future nanoworld

(2018) Ling Wang et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Soft Materials Driven by Photothermal Effect and Their Applications

(2018) Hari Krishna Bisoyi et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Reversible light-directed self-organized 3D liquid crystalline photonic nanostructures doped with azobenzene-functionalized bent-shaped molecules

(2018) Meng Wang et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

The Halogen Bond: An Emerging Supramolecular Tool in the Design of Functional Mesomorphic Materials

(2018) Hao Wang et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Dynamic Control of Light Direction Enabled by Stimuli-Responsive Liquid Crystal Gratings

(2018) Rafael S. Zola et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Chiral plasmonic nanocrescents: large-area fabrication and optical properties

(2018) Vladimir E. Bochenkov et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Stimuli-directed self-organized chiral superstructures for adaptive windows enabled by mesogen-functionalized graphene

(2017) Ling Wang et al.   Materials Today

Large three-dimensional photonic crystals based on monocrystalline liquid crystal blue phases

(2017) Chun-Wei Chen et al.   Nature Communications

Dynamic control of function by light-driven molecular motors

(2017) Thomas van Leeuwen et al.   Nature Reviews Chemistry

Light-Directed Dynamic Chirality Inversion in Functional Self-Organized Helical Superstructures

(2016) Hari Krishna Bisoyi et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Frequency-Driven Self-Organized Helical Superstructures Loaded with Mesogen-Grafted Silica Nanoparticles

(2016) Karla G. Gutierrez-Cuevas et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Light-Driven Liquid Crystalline Materials: From Photo-Induced Phase Transitions and Property Modulations to Applications

(2016) Hari Krishna Bisoyi et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Three-dimensional control of the helical axis of a chiral nematic liquid crystal by light

(2016) Zhi-gang Zheng et al.   NATURE

Planar optics with patterned chiral liquid crystals

(2016) Junji Kobashi et al.   Nature Photonics

Polychromatic Optical Vortex Generation from Patterned Cholesteric Liquid Crystals

(2016) Junji Kobashi et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Enhancing and reducing chirality by opposite circularly-polarized light irradiation on crystalline chiral domains consisting of nonchiral photoresponsive W-shaped liquid crystal molecules

(2016) Suk-Won Choi et al.   Soft Matter

Light-reconfigured waveband-selective diffraction device enabled by micro-patterning of a photoresponsive self-organized helical superstructure

(2016) Pei-zhi Sun et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Thermally reversible full color selective reflection in a self-organized helical superstructure enabled by a bent-core oligomesogen exhibiting a twist-bend nematic phase

(2016) Yuan Wang et al.   Materials Horizons

Photomodulated Supramolecular Chirality in Achiral Photoresponsive Rodlike Compounds Nanosegregated from the Helical Nanofilaments of Achiral Bent-Core Molecules

(2015) Kibeom Kim et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Stable Selective Gratings in LC Polymer by Photoinduced Helix Pitch Modulation

(2015) Alexander Ryabchun et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Stimuli-Directing Self-Organized 3D Liquid-Crystalline Nanostructures: From Materials Design to Photonic Applications

(2015) Ling Wang et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Luminescence-Driven Reversible Handedness Inversion of Self-Organized Helical Superstructures Enabled by a Novel Near-Infrared Light Nanotransducer

(2015) Ling Wang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Electrically Tunable Selective Reflection of Light from Ultraviolet to Visible and Infrared by Heliconical Cholesterics

(2015) Jie Xiang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Near infrared light-driven liquid crystal phase transition enabled by hydrophobic mesogen grafted plasmonic gold nanorods

(2015) Karla G. Gutierrez-Cuevas et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Effect of chirality in platinum drugs

(2015) Fabio Arnesano et al.   COORDINATION CHEMISTRY REVIEWS

Room temperature heliconical twist-bend nematic liquid crystal

(2015) Yuan Wang et al.   CRYSTENGCOMM

Photoresponsive supramolecular gels based on amphiphiles with azobenzene and maltose or polyethyleneglycol polar head

(2015) María José Clemente et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY

A cyclic azobenzenophane-based smart polymer for chiroptical switches

(2015) Jinjie Lu et al.   Polymer Chemistry

Near-Infrared Light-Directed Handedness Inversion in Plasmonic Nanorod-Embedded Helical Superstructure

(2015) Ling Wang et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Wide tunable lasing in photoresponsive chiral liquid crystal emulsion

(2015) Zhi-gang Zheng et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Light-Directing Chiral Liquid Crystal Nanostructures: From 1D to 3D

(2014) Hari Krishna Bisoyi et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Light-Directing Omnidirectional Circularly Polarized Reflection from Liquid-Crystal Droplets

(2014) Jing Fan et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Upconversion Luminescent Materials: Advances and Applications

(2014) Jing Zhou et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Upconversion Nanoparticles: Design, Nanochemistry, and Applications in Theranostics

(2014) Guanying Chen et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Rationally Designed Axially Chiral Diarylethene Switches with High Helical Twisting Power

(2014) Yannian Li et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Reversible Near-Infrared Light Directed Reflection in a Self-Organized Helical Superstructure Loaded with Upconversion Nanoparticles

(2014) Ling Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Electrooptic Response of Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystals with Oblique Helicoidal Director

(2014) Jie Xiang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Photoresponsive Monodisperse Cholesteric Liquid Crystalline Microshells for Tunable Omnidirectional Lasing Enabled by a Visible Light-Driven Chiral Molecular Switch

(2014) Lujian Chen et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Textures of cholesteric droplets controlled by photo-switching chirality at the molecular level

(2014) Jiawen Chen et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Red, Green and Blue Reflections Enabled in an Optically Tunable Self-Organized 3D Cubic Nanostructured Thin Film

(2013) Tsung-Hsien Lin et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Azoarenes with Opposite Chiral Configurations: Light-Driven Reversible Handedness Inversion in Self-Organized Helical Superstructures

(2013) Yannian Li et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Photodynamic Chiral Molecular Switches with Thermal Stability: From Reflection Wavelength Tuning to Handedness Inversion of Self-Organized Helical Superstructures

(2013) Yannian Li et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Electric field-induced monodomain blue phase liquid crystals

(2013) Yuan Chen et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Effect of a chiral substituent on the photochromic and photoconductive properties of a methacrylic polymer bearing side chain azocarbazole moieties

(2013) Luigi Angiolini et al.   DYES AND PIGMENTS

Light-Driven Linear Helical Supramolecular Polymer Formed by Molecular-Recognition-Directed Self-Assembly of Bis(p-sulfonatocalix[4]arene) and Pseudorotaxane

(2013) Ruyi Sun et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Photoinduced liquid crystal blue phase by bent-shapedcisisomer of the azobenzene doped in chiral nematic liquid crystal

(2013) Yeping Wu et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Effect of Molecular Structure on Chiro-Optical and Photo-Optical Properties of Smart Liquid Crystalline Polyacrylates

(2013) Alexey Bobrovsky et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Flexoelectrically Driven Electroclinic Effect in the Twist-Bend Nematic Phase of Achiral Molecules with Bent Shapes

(2013) C. Meyer et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Nematic twist-bend phase with nanoscale modulation of molecular orientation

(2013) V. Borshch et al.   Nature Communications

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(2013)   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Light-Driven Chiral Molecular Switches or Motors in Liquid Crystals

(2012) Yan Wang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Photoisomerization-induced stable liquid crystalline cubic blue phase

(2012) Min-Jun Gim et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Time-programmed helix inversion in phototunable liquid crystals

(2012) Sarah J. Aßhoff et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Reversible Light-Directed Red, Green, and Blue Reflection with Thermal Stability Enabled by a Self-Organized Helical Superstructure

(2012) Yannian Li et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Reversible Visible-Light Tuning of Self-Organized Helical Superstructures Enabled by Unprecedented Light-Driven Axially Chiral Molecular Switches

(2012) Yan Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Photoinduced phase transition behaviours of the liquid crystal blue phase doped with azobenzene bent-shaped molecules

(2012) Ying Wen et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Pathway complexity in supramolecular polymerization

(2012) Peter A. Korevaar et al.   NATURE

Photochemically Reversible and Thermally Stable Axially Chiral Diarylethene Switches

(2012) Yannian Li et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Synthesis and photoresponsive behavior of optically active methacrylic homopolymers containing side-chain spiropyran chromophores

(2012) Luigi Angiolini et al.   REACTIVE & FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS

Optical spatial solitons: historical overview and recent advances

(2012) Zhigang Chen et al.   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

Photoresponsive chiral nanotubes of achiral amphiphilic azobenzene

(2012) Qingchao Hu et al.   Soft Matter

Directing Dynamic Control of Red, Green, and Blue Reflection Enabled by a Light-Driven Self-Organized Helical Superstructure

(2011) Quan Li et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Photocontrollable Liquid-Crystalline Actuators

(2011) Haifeng Yu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Helical Chirality of Azobenzenes Induced by an Intramolecular Chiral Axis and Potential as Chiroptical Switches

(2011) Kazuto Takaishi et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Reversible photochemical control of cholesteric liquid crystals with a diamine-based diarylethene chiroptical switch

(2011) Thomas van Leeuwen et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Synthesis and Characterization of Light-Driven Dithienylcyclopentene Switches with Axial Chirality

(2011) Yannian Li et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Synthesis and Characterization of Thermally Irreversible Photochromic Cholesteric Liquid Crystals

(2011) Krishnamurthy Rameshbabu et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Synthesis and Conformation of Substituted Chiral Binaphthyl-Azobenzene Cyclic Dyads with Chiroptical Switching Capabilities

(2011) Kazuto Takaishi et al.   MOLECULES

Optically tuneable blue phase photonic band gaps

(2010) Hu-Yi Liu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Light-driven nanoscale chiral molecular switch: reversible dynamic full range color phototuning

(2010) Ji Ma et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Chirality transfer across length-scales in nematic liquid crystals: fundamentals and applications

(2010) Silvia Pieraccini et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Thermally, photochemically and electrically switchable reflection colors from self-organized chiral bent-core liquid crystals

(2010) Manoj Mathews et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

An Enantioselective Synthetic Route toward Second-Generation Light-Driven Rotary Molecular Motors

(2010) Thomas C. Pijper et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Light-Driven Reversible Handedness Inversion in Self-Organized Helical Superstructures

(2010) Manoj Mathews et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Plasmonic Circular Dichroism of Chiral Metal Nanoparticle Assemblies

(2010) Zhiyuan Fan et al.   NANO LETTERS

Liquid-crystal lasers

(2010) Harry Coles et al.   Nature Photonics

Self-assembled one-dimensional soft nanostructures

(2010) Sila Toksoz et al.   Soft Matter

Phototunable Azobenzene Cholesteric Liquid Crystals with 2000 nm Range

(2009) Timothy J. White et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Thin flexible photosensitive cholesteric displays

(2009) Nithya Venkataraman et al.   Journal of the Society for Information Display

Light-driven molecular switches with tetrahedral and axial chirality

(2009) Lisa Green et al.   ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY

Preparation of chiral poly(diacetylene) films from 10,12-pentacosadiynoic acid using circularly polarized light

(2009) Hideki Kohn et al.   THIN SOLID FILMS

Photoresponsive Glass-Forming Butadiene-Based Chiral Liquid Crystals with Circularly Polarized Photoluminescence

(2008) Ratheesh K. Vijayaraghavan et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Photoinduced Reorganization of Motor-Doped Chiral Liquid Crystals: Bridging Molecular Isomerization and Texture Rotation

(2008) Alessandro Bosco et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Planar Chiral Azobenzenophanes as Chiroptic Switches for Photon Mode Reversible Reflection Color Control in Induced Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystals

(2008) Manoj Mathews et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Light-Controlled Supramolecular Helicity of a Liquid Crystalline Phase Using a Helical Polymer Functionalized with a Single Chiroptical Molecular Switch

(2008) Dirk Pijper et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Synthesis and Photoresponsive Properties of Optically Active Methacrylic Polymers Bearing Side-Chain Azocarbazole Moieties

(2008) Luigi Angiolini et al.   MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS

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(2008) Loren E. Hough et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS