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This paper reviews recent advances in self-assembled liquid crystalline architectures in terms of their fabrications, manipulations, as well as emerging applications.
Pulsed laser method uses a laser as an energy source to produce diverse materials in various environments for the reactions of photo- and electrocatalytic applications.
Liquid crystal-based actuators with structural color changes and the potential applications of these structural color actuators in soft robotic devices are reviewed.
Large-aperture high-quality DKDP crystal with deuteration level of 70% has been successfully grown, which can fabricate the large single-crystal optics with the size exceeding 400 mm for ICF application.
Plasmonics can help to produce optical gratings with surprisingly high regularity and writing speed, surpassing mechanically ruled gratings in both aspects.
This review focuses on liquid crystal-templated chiral functional nanomaterials, including chiral plasmonic nanomaterials and chiral luminescent nanomaterials, introducing their underlying mechanisms, chiroptical properties, and potential applications.