ReviewChemical reviews2023
Structural Color from Cellulose Nanocrystals or Chitin Nanocrystals: Self-Assembly, Optics, and Applications.
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42 citing papers in PubMed, 188 citations in OpenAlex.
- Near-White Circularly Polarized Luminescence by Color Mixing Utilizing Surface-Fluorophore-Modified Cellulose Nanocrystals in Composite Films.Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026Article
- Advances in Structural Colors-Mechanisms, Quantitative Evaluation, and Applications: A Review.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Chitin nanocrystals from deep-sea shrimp (Plesionika martia): Structural, morphological, and functional characterization.Protoplasma · 2026Article
- Damselflies overcome color saturation barriers of photonic glasses via pigment loading and refractive index modulation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Unidirectional cellulose nanocrystal hydrogel for bio-based invertible chiral optics and sensors.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Engineering β-cyclodextrin gels with nanoparticles: tunable assembly and multifunctional applications.Nanoscale advances · 2026Article
- Freeform Manufacturing of Plant-Based Structural Colors for Scalable Photonic and Mechanochromic Devices.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026Article
- Cellulose-based liquid crystal elastomer with tunable mechanochromic Response.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Colloidal Deacetylation of Chitin Nanocrystals Results in Amorphous and Patchy Chitosan Chains.ACS nano · 2026Article
- Innovative Applications Enabled by the Versatile Structural Color of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals.Accounts of materials research · 2026Article
- Advances in Strategies for Colloidal Self-Assembly.Chemical reviews · 2026Review
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- Photochromic Cholesteric Liquid Crystals via Arylazopyrazole Functionalization of Hydroxypropyl Cellulose.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026Article
- Dynamic anticounterfeiting and tunable lasing with screen-printed cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Synthesis and Characterization of CNC/CNF/rGO Composite Films for Advanced Functional Applications.Micromachines · 2026Article
- Engineering Chiroptical Interactions through Integrating Plasmonic Arrays with Cholesteric Nanocellulose.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026Article
- Mechanochromic cholesteric liquid crystal devices for mechanical strain detection.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Entropy-Driven Cellulosic Elastomer Self-Assembly for Mechanical Energy Harvesting and Self-Powered Sensing.Nano-micro letters · 2026Review
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- Cellulose-Refined Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Films with Both Right- and Left-Handed Circularly Polarized Light Reflection.Biomacromolecules · 2026Article
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12 authors at 6 institutions in 5 countries.
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Abstract
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, polysaccharides are drawing increasing attention due to offering a renewable, biodegradable, and biocompatible feedstock for functional nanomaterials. In particular, nanocrystals of cellulose and chitin have emerged as versatile and sustainable building blocks for diverse applications, ranging from mechanical reinforcement to structural coloration. Much of this interest arises from the tendency of these colloidally stable nanoparticles to self-organize in water into a lyotropic cholesteric liquid crystal, which can be readily manipulated in terms of its periodicity, structure, and geometry. Importantly, this helicoidal ordering can be retained into the solid-state, offering an accessible route to complex nanostructured films, coatings, and particles. In this review, the process of forming iridescent, structurally colored films from suspensions of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) is summarized and the mechanisms underlying the chemical and physical phenomena at each stage in the process explored. Analogy is then drawn with chitin nanocrystals (ChNCs), allowing for key differences to be critically assessed and strategies toward structural coloration to be presented. Importantly, the progress toward translating this technology from academia to industry is summarized, with unresolved scientific and technical questions put forward as challenges to the community.
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