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Quan Li

Researcher at Liquid Crystal Institute

Publications -  220
Citations -  12700

Quan Li is an academic researcher from Liquid Crystal Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Liquid crystal & Cholesteric liquid crystal. The author has an hindex of 52, co-authored 211 publications receiving 9428 citations. Previous affiliations of Quan Li include Air Force Research Laboratory & Southeast University.

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

TL;DR: This Review focuses on the developments of light-driven liquid crystalline materials containing photochromic components over the past decade, and the developed materials possess huge potential for applications in optics, photonics, adaptive materials, nanotechnology, etc.
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Photochromism into nanosystems: towards lighting up the future nanoworld.

TL;DR: This Review provides an account of the recent advancements in reversible photocontrol of the structures and functions of photochromic nanosystems and their applications and outlines the challenges that need to be addressed and the opportunities that can be tapped into.
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Three-dimensional control of the helical axis of a chiral nematic liquid crystal by light

TL;DR: This work reports three-dimensional manipulation of the helical axis of a CLC, together with inversion of its handedness, achieved solely with a light stimulus, and uses this technique to carry out light-activated, wide-area, reversible two-dimensional beam steering—previously accomplished using complex integrated systems and optical phased arrays.
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Light-driven chiral molecular switches or motors in liquid crystals.

TL;DR: This review focuses on different classes of light-driven chiral molecular switches or motors in liquid crystal media for the induction and manipulation of photoresponsive cholesteric liquid crystal systems and their consequent applications.
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Light-Directing Chiral Liquid Crystal Nanostructures: From 1D to 3D

TL;DR: This Account conceptualized and rationally synthesized different light-driven chiral molecular switches that have very high helical twisting powers (HTPs) and exhibit large changes in HTP in different states, thereby enabling wide phototunability of the systems by the addition of very small amounts of the molecular switches into commercially available achiral LCs.