The review paper Advanced Functional Liquid Crystals by Junya Uchida, Bartolome Soberats, Monika Gupta and Takashi Kato has ben accepted for publication in the journal Advanced Materials.

This paper is part of the «Hall of fame» series of invited-only review articles, which showcases the outstanding achievements of leading international researchers (Prof. Takashi Kato, The University of Tokyo) in the field of materials science. It was for me an honour to participate in writing this article and work again with Prof. Kato, my postdoc supervisor from 2011 to 2015. Thanks to all, Kato-sensei, Monica-san and Uchida-kun!!!

Tomeu-san