Travelling colourful patterns in self-organized cellulose-based liquid crystalline structures

Pedro E. S. Silva; Ricardo Chagas; Susete N. Fernandes; Pawel Pieranski; Robin L. B. Selinger; Maria Helena Godinho

doi:10.1038/s43246-021-00182-7

Communications Materials (Jul 2021)

Travelling colourful patterns in self-organized cellulose-based liquid crystalline structures

Pedro E. S. Silva,
Ricardo Chagas,
Susete N. Fernandes,
Pawel Pieranski,
Robin L. B. Selinger,
Maria Helena Godinho

Affiliations

Pedro E. S. Silva: i3N/CENIMAT, Department of Materials Science, NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, Campus de Caparica
Ricardo Chagas: i3N/CENIMAT, Department of Materials Science, NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, Campus de Caparica
Susete N. Fernandes: i3N/CENIMAT, Department of Materials Science, NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, Campus de Caparica
Pawel Pieranski: Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris-Saclay
Robin L. B. Selinger: Department of Physics, Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University
Maria Helena Godinho: i3N/CENIMAT, Department of Materials Science, NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, Campus de Caparica

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-021-00182-7
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Cellulose is a naturally occurring system of interest for its chiral macromolecular structure. Here, colourful structural patterns are observed in a cellulose-based lyotropic cholesteric system, attributed to conformational self-adjustment of the cellulose chain to its environment.

Published in Communications Materials

ISSN: 2662-4443 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering: Materials of engineering and construction. Mechanics of materials
Website: https://www.nature.com/commsmat/

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