From Equilibrium Liquid Crystal Formation and Kinetic Arrest to Photonic Bandgap Films Using Suspensions of Cellulose Nanocrystals

Boundary Geometry Effects on the Coalescence of Liquid Crystalline Tactoids and Formation of Topological Defects

(2019) Orla O’Keeffe et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Effect of Size Polydispersity on the Pitch of Nanorod Cholesterics

(2019) Henricus Wensink   Crystals

Connectivity, Not Density, Dictates Percolation in Nematic Liquid Crystals of Slender Nanoparticles

(2019) Shari P. Finner et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

So much more than paper

(2019) Bruno Frka-Petesic et al.   Nature Photonics

Angular optical response of cellulose nanocrystal films explained by the distortion of the arrested suspension upon drying

(2019) Bruno Frka-Petesic et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS

Colloidal Behavior of Cellulose Nanocrystals Grafted with Poly(2-alkyl-2-oxazoline)s

(2019) Cony Gauche et al.   ACS Omega

Facile Anisotropic Deswelling Method for Realizing Large‐Area Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Elastomers with Uniform Structural Color and Broad‐Range Mechanochromic Response

(2019) Rijeesh Kizhakidathazhath et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Highly efficient cellulose dissolution by alkaline ionic liquids

(2019) Kallidanthiyil Chellappan Lethesh et al.   CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS

Confinement effect on spatio-temporal growth of spherulites from cellulose/ionic liquid solutions

(2019) Ashna Rajeev et al.   POLYMER

Cellulose Nanocrystal-Based Colored Thin Films for Colorimetric Detection of Aldehyde Gases

(2018) Wonbin Song et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Surface Charge Influence on the Phase Separation and Viscosity of Cellulose Nanocrystals

(2018) Tiffany Abitbol et al.   LANGMUIR

Aerogel materials with periodic structures imprinted with cellulose nanocrystals

(2018) Yi-Tao Xu et al.   Nanoscale

Confinement-induced liquid crystalline transitions in amyloid fibril cholesteric tactoids

(2018) Gustav Nyström et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Fluorescent Cellulose Nanocrystals with Responsiveness to Solvent Polarity and Ionic Strength

(2018) Weibing Wu et al.   SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL

Fractionation of cellulose nanocrystals: enhancing liquid crystal ordering without promoting gelation

(2018) Camila Honorato-Rios et al.   NPG Asia Materials

Iridescent Chiral Nematic Mesoporous Organosilicas with Alkylene Spacers

(2018) Andrea S. Terpstra et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Printing of Responsive Photonic Cellulose Nanocrystal Microfilm Arrays

(2018) Tianheng H. Zhao et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Liquid crystals in micron-scale droplets, shells and fibers

(2017) Martin Urbanski et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Formation of Colloidal Nanocellulose Glasses and Gels

(2017) Malin Nordenström et al.   LANGMUIR

Tactoid Annealing Improves Order in Self-Assembled Cellulose Nanocrystal Films with Chiral Nematic Structures

(2017) Andy Tran et al.   LANGMUIR

Using chiral tactoids as optical probes to study the aggregation behavior of chromonics

(2017) Karthik Nayani et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Conformations and membrane-driven self-organization of rodlike fd virus particles on freestanding lipid membranes

(2017) Anastasiia B. Petrova et al.   Soft Matter

Cholesteric liquid crystals in living matter

(2017) Michel Mitov   Soft Matter

One-Pot Water-Based Hydrophobic Surface Modification of Cellulose Nanocrystals Using Plant Polyphenols

(2017) Zhen Hu et al.   ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

Flexible Photonic Cellulose Nanocrystal Films

(2016) Giulia Guidetti et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Mind the Microgap in Iridescent Cellulose Nanocrystal Films

(2016) Susete N. Fernandes et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Aggregation behavior of aqueous cellulose nanocrystals: the effect of inorganic salts

(2016) Tuan Phan-Xuan et al.   CELLULOSE

Cooperative Ordering and Kinetics of Cellulose Nanocrystal Alignment in a Magnetic Field

(2016) Kevin J. De France et al.   LANGMUIR

Influence of the Particle Concentration and Marangoni Flow on the Formation of Cellulose Nanocrystal Films

(2016) Alican Gençer et al.   LANGMUIR

Enhancing Self-Assembly in Cellulose Nanocrystal Suspensions Using High-Permittivity Solvents

(2016) Johanna R. Bruckner et al.   LANGMUIR

Benchmarking Cellulose Nanocrystals: From the Laboratory to Industrial Production

(2016) Michael S. Reid et al.   LANGMUIR

Structure and transformation of tactoids in cellulose nanocrystal suspensions

(2016) Pei-Xi Wang et al.   Nature Communications

Colloidal cholesteric liquid crystal in spherical confinement

(2016) Yunfeng Li et al.   Nature Communications

A bio-inspired cellulose nanocrystal-based nanocomposite photonic film with hyper-reflection and humidity-responsive actuator properties

(2016) Tianhang Wu et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Equilibrium Liquid Crystal Phase Diagrams and Detection of Kinetic Arrest in Cellulose Nanocrystal Suspensions

(2016) Camila Honorato-Rios et al.   Frontiers in Materials

Flexibility and Color Monitoring of Cellulose Nanocrystal Iridescent Solid Films Using Anionic or Neutral Polymers

(2015) Raphael Bardet et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Engineered pigments based on iridescent cellulose nanocrystal films

(2015) Raphael Bardet et al.   CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS

Droplets of cellulose nanocrystal suspensions on drying give iridescent 3-D “coffee-stain” rings

(2015) Xiaoyue Mu et al.   CELLULOSE

Manipulating the Coffee-Ring Effect: Interactions at Work

(2015) Manos Anyfantakis et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Rod Packing in Chiral Nematic Cellulose Nanocrystal Dispersions Studied by Small-Angle X-ray Scattering and Laser Diffraction

(2015) Christina Schütz et al.   LANGMUIR

Light-Directed Particle Patterning by Evaporative Optical Marangoni Assembly

(2015) Subramanyan Namboodiri Varanakkottu et al.   NANO LETTERS

Experimental realization of crossover in shape and director field of nematic tactoids

(2015) Vida Jamali et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Chiral structures and defects of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals induced by saddle-splay elasticity

(2015) Zoey S. Davidson et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Chiral structures from achiral liquid crystals in cylindrical capillaries

(2015) Joonwoo Jeong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Spontaneous emergence of chirality in achiral lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals confined to cylinders

(2015) Karthik Nayani et al.   Nature Communications

Understanding nanocellulose chirality and structure–properties relationship at the single fibril level

(2015) Ivan Usov et al.   Nature Communications

Orientationally Ordered Colloidal Co-Dispersions of Gold Nanorods and Cellulose Nanocrystals

(2014) Qingkun Liu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Responsive Mesoporous Photonic Cellulose Films by Supramolecular Cotemplating

(2014) Michael Giese et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Functional Materials from Cellulose-Derived Liquid-Crystal Templates

(2014) Michael Giese et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Dispersibility of HCl-treated Cellulose Nanocrystals with Water-dispersible Properties in Organic Solvents

(2014) Hiromichi Okura et al.   CHEMISTRY LETTERS

First experimental evidence of a giant permanent electric-dipole moment in cellulose nanocrystals

(2014) Bruno Frka-Petesic et al.   EPL

Polymerization Topochemistry of Cellulose Nanocrystals: A Function of Surface Dehydration Control

(2014) Chen Tian et al.   LANGMUIR

Formation of Chiral Nematic Films from Cellulose Nanocrystal Suspensions Is a Two-Stage Process

(2014) Xiaoyue Mu et al.   LANGMUIR

Surface modification of cellulose nanocrystals

(2014) Samuel Eyley et al.   Nanoscale

Chiral symmetry breaking and surface faceting in chromonic liquid crystal droplets with giant elastic anisotropy

(2014) Joonwoo Jeong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cellulose nanocrystal-based materials: from liquid crystal self-assembly and glass formation to multifunctional thin films

(2014) Jan P F Lagerwall et al.   NPG Asia Materials

Characterization of TEMPO-oxidized cellulose nanofibers in aqueous suspension by small-angle X-ray scattering

(2014) Ying Su et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED CRYSTALLOGRAPHY

Thermal Switching of the Reflection in Chiral Nematic Mesoporous Organosilica Films Infiltrated with Liquid Crystals

(2013) Michael Giese et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Strengthening Alginate/Polyacrylamide Hydrogels Using Various Multivalent Cations

(2013) Can Hui Yang et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Confinement-Sensitive Optical Response of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals in Electrospun Fibers

(2013) Eva Enz et al.   ACS Nano

CdS Quantum Dots Encapsulated in Chiral Nematic Mesoporous Silica: New Iridescent and Luminescent Materials

(2013) Thanh-Dinh Nguyen et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Biopolymer Templated Glass with a Twist: Controlling the Chirality, Porosity, and Photonic Properties of Silica with Cellulose Nanocrystals

(2013) Kevin E. Shopsowitz et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Transport and deposition patterns in drying sessile droplets

(2013) Ronald G. Larson   AICHE JOURNAL

Flexible Mesoporous Photonic Resins with Tunable Chiral Nematic Structures

(2013) Mostofa K. Khan et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Responsive Photonic Hydrogels Based on Nanocrystalline Cellulose

(2013) Joel A. Kelly et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Cilia-Mimetic Hairy Surfaces Based on End-Immobilized Nanocellulose Colloidal Rods

(2013) Arcot R. Lokanathan et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Isolation of Thermally Stable Cellulose Nanocrystals by Phosphoric Acid Hydrolysis

(2013) Sandra Camarero Espinosa et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Interplay of colloidal stability of cellulose nanocrystals and their dispersibility in cellulose acetate butyrate matrix

(2013) Leandro S. Blachechen et al.   CELLULOSE

Tuning the iridescence of chiral nematic cellulose nanocrystals and mesoporous silica films by substrate variation

(2013) Thanh-Dinh Nguyen et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Key advances in the chemical modification of nanocelluloses

(2013) Youssef Habibi   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Supracolloidal Multivalent Interactions and Wrapping of Dendronized Glycopolymers on Native Cellulose Nanocrystals

(2013) Johanna Majoinen et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

On some important chapters in the history of liquid crystals

(2013) Sven T. Lagerwall   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Glass Transition in Suspensions of Charged Rods: Structural Arrest and Texture Dynamics

(2013) K. Kang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Evaporation-induced saline Rayleigh convection inside a colloidal droplet

(2013) Kwan Hyoung Kang et al.   PHYSICS OF FLUIDS

Self-assembly of bacterial and tunicate cellulose nanowhiskers

(2013) Mudrika Khandelwal et al.   POLYMER

Influence of degree of sulfation on the rheology of cellulose nanocrystal suspensions

(2013) Sadaf Shafeiei-Sabet et al.   RHEOLOGICA ACTA

Gas-phase esterification of cellulose nanocrystal aerogels for colloidal dispersion in apolar solvents

(2013) Matthieu Fumagalli et al.   Soft Matter

Iridescent Chiral Nematic Cellulose Nanocrystal/Polymer Composites Assembled in Organic Solvents

(2013) Clement C. Y. Cheung et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Imprinting of Photonic Patterns with Thermosetting Amino-Formaldehyde-Cellulose Composites

(2013) Michael Giese et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Functional hybrids based on biogenic nanofibrils and inorganic nanomaterials

(2013) Bernd Wicklein et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Polyester-Grafted Cellulose Nanowhiskers: A New Approach for Tuning the Microstructure of Immiscible Polyester Blends

(2012) Anne-Lise Goffin et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Cholesteric Liquid Crystals with a Broad Light Reflection Band

(2012) Michel Mitov   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Hard Templating of Nanocrystalline Titanium Dioxide with Chiral Nematic Ordering

(2012) Kevin E. Shopsowitz et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

SEM imaging of chiral nematic films cast from cellulose nanocrystal suspensions

(2012) Johanna Majoinen et al.   CELLULOSE

Hydrophobic cellulose nanocrystals modified with quaternary ammonium salts

(2012) Michaela Salajková et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Chiral Nematic Stained Glass: Controlling the Optical Properties of Nanocrystalline Cellulose-Templated Materials

(2012) Joel A. Kelly et al.   LANGMUIR

Rheology of Nanocrystalline Cellulose Aqueous Suspensions

(2012) Sadaf Shafiei-Sabet et al.   LANGMUIR

Structured color humidity indicator from reversible pitch tuning in self-assembled nanocrystalline cellulose films

(2012) Yu Ping Zhang et al.   SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL

Nanocelluloses: A New Family of Nature-Based Materials

(2011) Dieter Klemm et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Cellulose nanomaterials review: structure, properties and nanocomposites

(2011) Robert J. Moon et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Drops and shells of liquid crystal

(2011) Teresa Lopez-Leon et al.   COLLOID AND POLYMER SCIENCE

Flexible and Iridescent Chiral Nematic Mesoporous Organosilica Films

(2011) Kevin E. Shopsowitz et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Rheology and Phase Behavior of Lyotropic Cellulose Nanocrystal Suspensions

(2011) Esteban E. Ureña-Benavides et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Ultrathin film coatings of aligned cellulose nanocrystals from a convective-shear assembly system and their surface mechanical properties

(2011) Ingrid Hoeger et al.   Soft Matter

Liquid-Crystal Templating in Ammonia: A Facile Route to Micro- and Mesoporous Metal Nitride/Carbon Composites

(2010) Hao Qi et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

TEMPO-Oxidized Cellulose Nanofibrils Dispersed in Organic Solvents

(2010) Yusuke Okita et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Controlling the Reflection Wavelength of Iridescent Solid Films of Nanocrystalline Cellulose

(2010) Stephanie Beck et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Parameters Affecting the Chiral Nematic Phase of Nanocrystalline Cellulose Films

(2010) Jinhe Pan et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Free-standing mesoporous silica films with tunable chiral nematic structures

(2010) Kevin E. Shopsowitz et al.   NATURE

Nematic droplets in aqueous dispersions of carbon nanotubes

(2010) Nicolas Puech et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Entropy driven self-assembly of nonamphiphilic colloidal membranes

(2010) E. Barry et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cellulose nanowhiskers: promising materials for advanced applications

(2010) Stephen J. Eichhorn   Soft Matter

Review: current international research into cellulose nanofibres and nanocomposites

(2009) S. J. Eichhorn et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE

Self-assembling and Chiral Nematic Properties of Organophilic Cellulose Nanocrystals

(2009) Samira Elazzouzi-Hafraoui et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

New Process of Chemical Grafting of Cellulose Nanoparticles with a Long Chain Isocyanate

(2009) Gilberto Siqueira et al.   LANGMUIR

Self-Organization of Cellulose Nanocrystals Adsorbed with Xyloglucan Oligosaccharide−Poly(ethylene glycol)−Polystyrene Triblock Copolymer

(2009) Qi Zhou et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Single-Step Method for the Isolation and Surface Functionalization of Cellulosic Nanowhiskers

(2008) Birgit Braun et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

A novel amphotropic polymer based on cellulose nanocrystals grafted with azo polymers

(2008) Qunxing Xu et al.   EUROPEAN POLYMER JOURNAL

Phase Separation Behavior in Aqueous Suspensions of Bacterial Cellulose Nanocrystals Prepared by Sulfuric Acid Treatment

(2008) Asako Hirai et al.   LANGMUIR

Chiral-nematic self-ordering of rodlike cellulose nanocrystals grafted with poly(styrene) in both thermotropic and lyotropic states

(2008) Jie Yi et al.   POLYMER

Interplay between Growth Mechanisms and Elasticity in Liquid Crystalline Nuclei

(2008) Christophe Blanc   PROGRESS OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS SUPPLEMENT

The Shape and Size Distribution of Crystalline Nanoparticles Prepared by Acid Hydrolysis of Native Cellulose

(2007) Samira Elazzouzi-Hafraoui et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES