Recent Advances in Patterned Bio-Inspired Cholesteric Liquid Crystals: Fabrication, Stimuli-Responsive Mechanisms, and Smart Optical Applications

Key Points

• The central aim is to explore recent advancements in the fabrication and application of patterned cholesteric liquid crystals.
• Analysis of bio-inspired design techniques for cholesteric liquid crystals
• Investigation of stimuli-responsive mechanisms
• Evaluation of smart optical applications of the developed CLCs
• Identified unique functional properties of cholesteric liquid crystals
• Demonstrated effective methods for artificial biomimetic preparation
• Showed potential applications in optical technologies