Self-assembled liquid crystal architectures for soft matter photonics

LL Ma, CY Li, JT Pan, YE Ji, C Jiang, R Zheng… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Self-assembled architectures of soft matter have fascinated scientists for centuries due to
their unique physical properties originated from controllable orientational and/or positional …

Nanocellulose: from fundamentals to advanced applications

D Trache, AF Tarchoun, M Derradji… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Over the past few years, nanocellulose (NC), cellulose in the form of nanostructures, has
been proved to be one of the most prominent green materials of modern times. NC materials …

Circularly polarized luminescence from organic micro-/nano-structures

Y Deng, M Wang, Y Zhuang, S Liu, W Huang… - Light: Science & …, 2021 - nature.com
Circularly polarized light exhibits promising applications in future displays and photonic
technologies. Circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) from chiral luminophores is an ideal …

Nanocellulose‐based functional materials: from chiral photonics to soft actuator and energy storage

P Lv, X Lu, L Wang, W Feng - Advanced Functional Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Nanocellulose is currently in the limelight of extensive research from fundamental science to
technological applications owing to its renewable and carbon‐neutral nature, superior …

Mussel-inspired blue-light-activated cellulose-based adhesive hydrogel with fast gelation, rapid haemostasis and antibacterial property for wound healing

S Lu, X Zhang, Z Tang, H Xiao, M Zhang, K Liu… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Uncontrollable bleeding and wound infection remain as the primary challenges for
emergency surgical procedures, including deep and non-compressible bleeding in the clinic …

Fluorescent cellulose-based materials for information encryption and anti-counterfeiting

Z Quan, Q Zhang, H Li, S Sun, Y Xu - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
The development of anti-counterfeiting and information encryption (AcIE) technology has an
essential effect on reducing economic losses and ensuring public safety. Cellulose-based …

Structural color materials for optical anticounterfeiting

W Hong, Z Yuan, X Chen - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The counterfeiting of goods is growing worldwide, affecting practically any marketable item
ranging from consumer goods to human health. Anticounterfeiting is essential for …

Stimuli‐responsive photonic actuators for integrated biomimetic and intelligent systems

J Gao, Y Tang, D Martella, J Guo… - Responsive …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Photonic actuators, serving as an emerging kind of intelligent stimuli‐responsive material,
can exhibit the abilities to change their structural colors/fluorescence and shapes under …

Nature‐inspired emerging chiral liquid crystal nanostructures: from molecular self‐assembly to DNA mesophase and nanocolloids

L Wang, AM Urbas, Q Li - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid crystals (LCs) are omnipresent in living matter, whose chirality is an elegant and
distinct feature in certain plant tissues, the cuticles of crabs, beetles, arthropods, and …

Pressure/temperature dual‐responsive cellulose nanocrystal hydrogels for on‐demand schemochrome patterning

X Li, J Liu, X Zhang - Advanced Functional Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) based optical devices with adjustable schemochrome have
attracted immense interest. However, most of the previously reported structural colored CNC …