Understanding nanocellulose–water interactions: Turning a detriment into an asset

L Solhi, V Guccini, K Heise, I Solala… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Modern technology has enabled the isolation of nanocellulose from plant-based fibers, and
the current trend focuses on utilizing nanocellulose in a broad range of sustainable …

Advances in graphene-based flexible and wearable strain sensors

H Chen, F Zhuo, J Zhou, Y Liu, J Zhang, S Dong… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Flexible and wearable electronics have recently gained considerable research interest due
to their potential applications in personal healthcare, electronic skins, and human–machine …

Bioinspired hydrogel actuator for soft robotics: Opportunity and challenges

Y Chen, Y Zhang, H Li, J Shen, F Zhang, J He, J Lin… - Nano Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Natural organisms offer abundant inspiration for designing and fabricating hydrogel robots
with autonomous and intelligent behaviors, including motion, perception, and response to …

Mechanochromic, shape‐programmable and self‐healable cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers enabled by dynamic covalent boronic ester bonds

J Ma, Y Yang, C Valenzuela, X Zhang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Endowing a cholesteric liquid crystal elastomer (CLCE) exhibiting a helicoidal nanostructure
with dynamically tailorable functionalities is of paramount significance for its emerging …

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 …

Micro‐nano porous structure for efficient daytime radiative sky cooling

J Liu, H Tang, C Jiang, S Wu, L Ye… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
With the aggravation of global warming and extreme weather, cooling demand has
witnessed a continuous increase and is expected to increase tenfold by 2050. Radiative sky …

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 …

Liquid crystal-templated chiral nanomaterials: from chiral plasmonics to circularly polarized luminescence

X Zhang, Y Xu, C Valenzuela, X Zhang… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Chiral nanomaterials with intrinsic chirality or spatial asymmetry at the nanoscale are
currently in the limelight of both fundamental research and diverse important technological …

Mechanochromic and ionic conductive cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers for biomechanical monitoring and human–machine interaction

J Ma, Y Yang, X Zhang, P Xue, C Valenzuela, Y Liu… - Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers (CLCEs) that combine rubbery elasticity with structural
colour from self-assembled helical nanostructures are of paramount importance for diverse …

A mini-review on the dielectric properties of cellulose and nanocellulose-based materials as electronic components

Q Luo, H Shen, G Zhou, X Xu - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2023 - Elsevier
Cellulose-based materials have the advantages of renewable, non-toxic, flexible, and strong
mechanical properties, so it of is great significance to study the dielectric properties of …