Cellulose is known to interact well with water, but is insoluble in it. Many polysaccharides
such as cellulose are known to have significant hydrogen bond networks joining 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 …

The transfer of chirality across length-scales is an intriguing and universal natural
phenomenon. However, connecting the properties of individual building blocks to the …

Cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) suspensions self-assembled into chiral nematic liquid crystals.
This property has enabled the development of versatile optical materials with fascinating …

Cellulosic sources, such as lignocellulose-rich biomass, can be mechanically or acid
degraded to produce inclusions called cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs). They have several …

Cellulose nanocrystals are natural nanomaterials with a high aspect ratio, high specific area,
excellent stability, and favorable optical performances. Cellulose nanocrystals can form …

The structural coloration of arthropods often arises from helicoidal structures made primarily
of chitin. Although it is possible to achieve analogous helicoidal architectures by exploiting …

Bottom-up synthesis strategies to construct nano-architectonic material exhibiting specific
properties by controlling the spatial distribution of the material units are challenging. Native …

Cellulose is a polysaccharide that displays chirality across different scales, from the
molecular to the supramolecular level. This feature has been exploited to generate chiral …

In this paper, molecular chirality is studied for liquid-crystal fluids represented by hard rods
with the addition of an attractive chiral dispersion term. Chiral forces between molecular …