We limit ourselves to studies involving aqueous liquid crystalline suspensions of CNCs and do not discuss suspensions of microfibrillated cellulose. Revisiting and reanalyzing some previously ...

These cellulose-based liquid marbles were colorless at first ... which caused the biopolymer to adopt a crystal form suitable for structural colors. Slowness and controllability were pivotal ...

But cellulose, the most abundant renewable polymer on the planet, is extremely recalcitrant to biological depolymerization. Although composed entirely of glucose units, its crystalline microfibrillar ...

The POSTECH research team has developed a synthesis method that precisely controls the size and shape of PNCs using a 'liquid crystal(LC)' as an antisolvent in the LARP method. LC is an ...

Free-stand ing film (FSF) has been a wellspring of new liquid crystal science since its discovery in the 1970s, because FSF can consist of a single smectic layer of the single component molecules ...

As BP II changes into BP I, the liquid crystal forms twin boundaries -- regions where two parts of the material align differently. Previous experimental studies fail to capture the detailed ...

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Harvard University have recently designed a polymer known as a liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) that can be "programmed" to both twist and bend in the ...

"But the structure of cellulose itself can be an obstacle." Catchmark said that most of a plant's sugar-based energy is locked up in the crystalline structure of cellulose. To make cellulose ...

Achiral liquid crystal pathways enhance efficiency by 20% and stability three-fold, while chiral structures increase efficiency by 56% and stability 50 times, offering promising prospects for ...