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Frka-Petesic B, Parton TG, Honorato-Rios C, Narkevicius A, Ballu K, Shen Q, Lu Z, Ogawa Y, Haataja JS, Droguet BE, Parker RM, Vignolini S. Structural Color from Cellulose Nanocrystals or Chitin Nanocrystals: Self-Assembly, Optics, and Applications. Chem Rev 2023; 123:12595-12756. [PMID: 38011110 PMCID: PMC10729353 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.2c00836] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2023]
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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Affiliation(s)
- Bruno Frka-Petesic
- Yusuf
Hamied Department of Chemistry, University
of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
- International
Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (WPI-SKCM), Hiroshima University, 1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan
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- Yusuf
Hamied Department of Chemistry, University
of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
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- Department
of Sustainable and Bio-inspired Materials, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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CUBE − Center for Molecular Bioengineering, Technische Universität Dresden, 01307 Dresden, Germany
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- Yusuf
Hamied Department of Chemistry, University
of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
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- Yusuf
Hamied Department of Chemistry, University
of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
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- Yusuf
Hamied Department of Chemistry, University
of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
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- CERMAV-CNRS,
CS40700, 38041 Grenoble cedex 9, France
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- Department
of Applied Physics, Aalto University School
of Science, P.O. Box
15100, Aalto, Espoo FI-00076, Finland
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- Yusuf
Hamied Department of Chemistry, University
of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
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- Yusuf
Hamied Department of Chemistry, University
of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
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- Yusuf
Hamied Department of Chemistry, University
of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
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Zhang Y, Tian Z, Fu Y, Wang Z, Qin M, Yuan Z. Responsive and patterned cellulose nanocrystal films modified by N-methylmorpholine-N-oxide. Carbohydr Polym 2020; 228:115387. [DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2019.115387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2019] [Revised: 09/23/2019] [Accepted: 09/25/2019] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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- Liguo Ma
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; 800 Dongchuan Road Shanghai 200240 P.R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; 800 Dongchuan Road Shanghai 200240 P.R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; 800 Dongchuan Road Shanghai 200240 P.R. China
- Present address: School of Chemical Science and Engineering; Tongji University; 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai China 200092 P.R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; 800 Dongchuan Road Shanghai 200240 P.R. China
- Present address: School of Chemical Science and Engineering; Tongji University; 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai China 200092 P.R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; 800 Dongchuan Road Shanghai 200240 P.R. China
- Present address: School of Chemical Science and Engineering; Tongji University; 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai China 200092 P.R. China
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Ma L, Cao Y, Duan Y, Han L, Che S. Silver Films with Hierarchical Chirality. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2017; 56:8657-8662. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201701994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2017] [Revised: 04/20/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Liguo Ma
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; 800 Dongchuan Road Shanghai 200240 P.R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; 800 Dongchuan Road Shanghai 200240 P.R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; 800 Dongchuan Road Shanghai 200240 P.R. China
- Present address: School of Chemical Science and Engineering; Tongji University; 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai China 200092 P.R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; 800 Dongchuan Road Shanghai 200240 P.R. China
- Present address: School of Chemical Science and Engineering; Tongji University; 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai China 200092 P.R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; 800 Dongchuan Road Shanghai 200240 P.R. China
- Present address: School of Chemical Science and Engineering; Tongji University; 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai China 200092 P.R. China
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Atomistic Modelling of Confined Polypropylene Chains between Ferric Oxide Substrates at Melt Temperature. Polymers (Basel) 2016; 8:polym8100361. [PMID: 30974636 PMCID: PMC6431934 DOI: 10.3390/polym8100361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2016] [Revised: 10/07/2016] [Accepted: 10/11/2016] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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The interactions and conformational characteristics of confined molten polypropylene (PP) chains between ferric oxide (Fe2O3) substrates were investigated by molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. A comparative analysis of the adsorbed amount shows strong adsorption of the chains on the high-energy surface of Fe2O3. Local structures formed in the polymer film were studied utilizing density profiles, orientation of bonds, and end-to-end distance of chains. At interfacial regions, the backbone carbon-carbon bonds of the chains preferably orient in the direction parallel to the surface while the carbon-carbon bonds with the side groups show a slight tendency to orient normal to the surface. Based on the conformation tensor data, the chains are compressed in the normal direction to the substrates in the interfacial regions while they tend to flatten in parallel planes with respect to the surfaces. The orientation of the bonds as well as the overall flattening of the chains in planes parallel to the solid surfaces are almost identical to that of the unconfined PP chains. Also, the local pressure tensor is anisotropic closer to the solid surfaces of Fe2O3 indicating the influence of the confinement on the buildup imbalance of normal and tangential pressures.
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