Digital color in cellulose nanocrystal films

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 12302-12306

  Dumanli, Ahu Gümrah ^a,b   Van Der Kooij, Hanne M ^a   Kamita, Gen ^a   Reisner, Erwin ^b   Baumberg, Jeremy J ^a   Steiner, Ullrich ^a,c   Vignolini, Silvia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

cellulose nanocrystals; chiral nematic films; iridescence; self assembly; structural color

Indexed keywords

COLOR; SELF ASSEMBLY; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

AQUEOUS SUSPENSIONS; CELLULOSE NANO-CRYSTALS; CELLULOSE NANOCRYSTAL (CNCS); CHIRAL NEMATIC PHASIS; CHIRAL-NEMATIC FILMS; IRIDESCENCE; SELF ASSEMBLY PROCESS; STRUCTURAL COLOR;

CELLULOSE DERIVATIVES;

CELLULOSE DERIVATIVES; COLOR; FILM;

CELLULOSE; NANOPARTICLE; POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE;

CHEMISTRY; COLOR; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CELLULOSE; COLOR; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOPARTICLES; POLYSTYRENES;

EID: 84906227346     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am501995e     Document Type: Article

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