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This Special Issue on “Soft Photonic Crystals and Metamaterials” from Materials consists of 10 papers that highlight recent advances in a broad scope of optical-wavelength and sub-wavelength structures made of soft materials and particles. Soft matter shows plenty of unique and improved optical properties for deep scientific understanding, thereby promoting fabrication, characterization and device performance for potential photonic applications that include, but are not limited to, photovoltaic cells, photodetectors, light-emitting diodes, tunable microlasers, optical filters for biosensors, smart windows, virtual/augmented reality head-mounted elements, and high-speed spatial light modulators in glasses-free 3D displays.

Materials science --- localization of light --- photonic crystals --- chirality --- dye-doped cholesteric liquid crystal --- optical Tamm states --- resonant frequency dispersion --- smart window --- cholesteric liquid crystal --- photochromic dichroic dye --- Tamm plasmon --- Bragg mirror --- rugate filter --- band gap --- light reflection and transmission --- metasurfaces --- tamm plasmon polaritons --- uniform lying helix --- polymer network --- frequency modulation --- electro-optic response --- mesogenic dimer --- flexoelectric effect --- dielectric effect --- nematic liquid crystal --- 2D periodic structures --- hexagonal diffraction patterns --- photoalignment --- out-of-plane reorientation --- flat optical elements --- optical Freedericksz transition --- dye-doped liquid crystal --- molecular reorientation --- colloidal crystals --- magnetite --- microparticles --- Bragg reflection --- magnetic response --- silica particles --- opals --- polydispersity index --- disLocate --- Voronoi tessellations --- bond order parameters --- metasurface --- metagratings --- n/a