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SUBMITTER: Dumanli AG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4251880 | biostudies-other | 2014 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Dumanli Ahu Gümrah AG van der Kooij Hanne M HM Kamita Gen G Reisner Erwin E Baumberg Jeremy J JJ Steiner Ullrich U Vignolini Silvia S
ACS applied materials & interfaces 20140728 15
Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) form chiral nematic phases in aqueous suspensions that can be preserved upon evaporation of water. The resulting films show an intense directional coloration determined by their microstructure. Here, microreflection experiments correlated with analysis of the helicoidal nanostructure of the films reveal that the iridescent colors and the ordering of the individual nematic layers are strongly dependent on the polydispersity of the size distribution of the CNCs. We sh ...[more]