A unique case of combined enhanced mechanical performance and tunable structural color
for chiral composites from cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) arises by adding nanofibrillar …

Natural high-performance materials inspire the pursuit of ordered hard/soft nanocomposite
structures at high fractions of reinforcements and with balanced supramolecular interactions …

Constructing and mimicking bioinspired structural color from bio-based materials has
aroused tremendous attention. Cellulose nanocrystals (CNC), a typical nanomaterial made …

The study reports the morphology and optical properties of a variety of cellulose
nanocrystals (CNC) obtained from different natural sources with different dimensions and …

The fabrication of biomimetic photonic materials with environmental stimuli-responsive
functions from entirely biobased materials is becoming increasingly challenging with the …

Widespread concerns over the impact of human activity on the environment have resulted in
a desire to replace artificial functional materials with naturally derived alternatives. As such …

This study demonstrates a novel chiral organization of multi‐materials from semiconducting
quantum nanorods (QNRs) co‐assembled into chiral nematic polysaccharide (cellulose) …

Chirality and repulsion interactions among sulfate cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) have vital
impact on the formation of a cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) phase in a suspension or …

We demonstrate bioenabled crack-free chiral nematic films prepared via a unidirectional
flow of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) in the capillary confinement. To facilitate the uniform …

Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) are perfect rodlike nanofibers that can self-assemble and
form a chiral nematic phase. We found that different self-assembling morphologies could be …