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20082026
most citedChiral Self-Assembly of Cellulose Nanocrystals is Driven by Crystallite Bundles

177 citations · 382 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

physics.optics2026

Chirality Inversion and Giant Optical Activity in Scalable Self-Assembled Metamaterials

Antonio Carone, Aso Rahimzadegan, Birgül Kalkan +8

Chiral materials manipulate light in ways that hold promise for sensing, imaging, and photonics, but producing such materials with strong and reproducible optical activity at large…

cond-mat.soft2025

Tuning the morphology of aerosolised cellulose nanocrystals via controlled aggregation

Daniel Warnes, Jia Hui Lim, Richard M. Parker +6

Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) are polycrystalline, rod-shaped nanoparticles isolated from cellulose, which have attracted increasing attention for a wide variety of applications. W…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 20 cited

Tailoring the Morphology of Cellulose Nanocrystals via Controlled Aggregation

Kévin Ballu, Jia-Hui Lim, Thomas G. Parton +5

Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) are elongated nanoparticles derived from natural cellulose, with potential applications ranging from rheological modifiers and emulsion stabilizers to…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 123 cited

Cellulose Photonic Pigments

Richard M. Parker, Tianheng H. Zhao, Bruno Frka-Petesic +1

When pursuing sustainable approaches to fabricate photonic structures, nature can be used as a source of inspiration for both the nanoarchitecture and the constituent materials. Al…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 177 cited

Chiral Self-Assembly of Cellulose Nanocrystals is Driven by Crystallite Bundles

Thomas G. Parton, Richard M. Parker, Gea T. van de Kerkhof +4

The transfer of chirality across length-scales is an intriguing and universal natural phenomenon. However, connecting the properties of individual building blocks to the emergent f…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 17 cited

Incorporation of magnetic nanoparticles into lamellar polystyrene-b-poly(n-butyl methacrylate) diblock copolymer films: influence of the chain end-groups on nanostructuration

Siham Douadi-Masrouki, Bruno Frka-Petesic, Maud Save +3

In this article, we present new samples of lamellar magnetic nanocomposites based on the self-assembly of a polystyrene-b-poly(n-butyl methacrylate) diblock copolymer synthesized b…

cond-mat.soft2009★ 35 cited

Universal scattering behavior of co-assembled nanoparticle-polymer clusters

J. Fresnais, J. -F. Berret, L. Qi +7

Water-soluble clusters made from 7 nm inorganic nanoparticles have been investigated by small-angle neutron scattering. The internal structure factor of the clusters was derived an…

cond-mat.soft2009

Electrostatic co-assembly of iron oxide nanoparticles and polymers : towards the generation of highly persistent superparamagnetic nanorods

J. Fresnais, J. -F. Berret, B. Frka-Petesic +2

A paradigm proposed recently by Boal et al. (A.K. Boal et al., Nature 404, 746-748, 2000) deals with the possibility to use inorganic nanoparticles as building blocks for the desig…

cond-mat.soft2008★ 10 cited

Reorientation kinetics of superparamagnetic nanostructured rods

J. Fresnais, J. -F. Berret, B. Frka-Petesic +2

The attractive interactions between oppositely charged species (colloids, macromolecules etc) dispersed in water are strong, and the direct mixing of solutions containing such spec…