Fig. 13: NIR light-driven chiral liquid crystal nanostructures with UCNPs.

a Schematic of NIR light-driven reversible switching of a unique chiral diarylethene with core-multishelled UCNPs. b Schematic demonstration of NIR light-driven handedness inversion of cholesteric superstructures enabled by UCNPs and a chiral diarylethene photoswitch. Reproduced with permission from ref. 309. Copyright 2015, WILEY-VCH. c Blue-phase 3D nanostructure stabilized by UCNPs. Reproduced with permission from ref. 310. Copyright 2022, WILEY-VCH