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 …

Chitin, a fascinating biopolymer found in living organisms, fulfills current demands of
availability, sustainability, biocompatibility, biodegradability, functionality, and renewability …

Naturally derived biopolymers have attracted great interest to construct photonic materials
with multi-scale ordering, adaptive birefringence, chiral organization, actuation and …

Many strategies for manufacturing high-performance carbon nanotube (CNT) fibers have
been reported in the past decade. Although spinning is an essential process regardless of …

Armed with the merits of one-dimensional nanostructures (flexibility, high aspect ratio, and
anisotropy) and metals (high conductivity, plasmonic properties, and catalytic activity), metal …

Bottom-up synthesis strategies to construct nano-architectonic material exhibiting specific
properties by controlling the spatial distribution of the material units are challenging. Native …

Individual carbon nanotubes (CNT) and graphene have unique mechanical and electrical
properties; however, the properties of their macroscopic assemblies have not met …

Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) are rapidly increasingly used nanomaterials with a large
surface area, outstanding mechanical characteristics, and the capacity to exhibit variable …

The rheological characterisation of liquids finds application in several fields ranging from
industrial production to the medical practice. Conventional rheometers are the gold standard …

For magnetic field orientation of nonstructures to become a viable method to create high
performance multifunctional nanocomposites, it is of paramount importance to develop a …