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 …

Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs), produced by the acid hydrolysis of wood, cotton or other
cellulose-rich sources, constitute a renewable nanosized raw material with a broad range of …

Besides nanostructured materials, individual particles are key elements for nanosciences.
The structuring properties of liquid crystals (LCs) are appealing to assemble them, to …

Ferrimagnetic inorganic nanorods have been used as building blocks to construct liquid
crystals with optical properties that can be instantly and reversibly controlled by …

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are a central part of advanced nanomaterials and are used in
state-of-the-art technologies, based on their high tensile strength, excellent thermal transfer …

Liquid crystals have found wide applications in many fields ranging from detergents to
information displays and they are also increasingly being used in the 'bottom-up'self …

A novel kind of spherical cellulose nanocrystal (SCNC) suspension was prepared by
hydrolysis of microcrystalline cellulose with a mixture of sulfuric acid and hydrochloric acid …

A review is given of the field of mineral colloidal liquid crystals: liquid crystal phases formed
by individual mineral particles within colloidal suspensions. Starting from their discovery in …

Self-organization in anisotropic colloidal suspensions leads to a fascinating range of crystal
and liquid crystal phases induced by shape alone. Simulations predict the phase behaviour …

The phase diagram of colloidal suspensions of electrically charged nanosheets, such as
clays, despite their many industrial uses, is not yet understood either experimentally or …