Although several therapeutic approaches are available for wound and burn treatment and
much progress has been made in this area, room for improvement still exists, driven by the …

The ability to control light direction with tailored precision via facile means is long‐desired in
science and industry. With the advances in optics, a periodic structure called diffraction …

The fabrication of responsive photonic structures from cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) that
can operate in the entire visible spectrum is challenging due to the requirements of precise …

This specialist monograph provides an overview of the recent research on the fundamental
and applied properties of nanoparticles extracted from cellulose, the most abundant polymer …

Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs), known for more than 50 years, have attracted attention
because of their unique properties such as high specific strength and modulus, high surface …

Many physical phenomena create colour: spectrally selective light absorption by pigments
and dyes,, material-specific optical dispersion and light interference,,,,,,–in micrometre-scale …

Nature has been producing cellulose since long before man walked the surface of the earth.
Millions of years of natural design and testing have resulted in cellulose‐based structures …

Responsive photonic crystals have potential applications in mechanical sensors and soft
displays; however, new materials are constantly desired to provide new innovations and …

Cotton-based nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC), also known as nanopaper, one of the major
sources of renewable materials, is a promising substrate and component for producing low …

Hydroxypropyl cellulose (HPC) is an edible, cost‐effective and widely used derivative of
cellulose. Under lyotropic conditions in water, HPC forms a photonic, liquid crystalline …