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Enantioselective disruption of cellulose nanocrystal self-assembly into chiral nematic phases in d-alanine solutions

Published:2023 Issue:42 Volume:15 Page:16890-16895
ISSN:2040-3364
Container-title:Nanoscale
language:en
Short-container-title:Nanoscale

Author:

Attia David¹^ORCID,Mendelson Orit¹²,Levi-Kalisman Yael³^ORCID,Bitton Ronit¹⁴^ORCID,Yerushalmi-Rozen Rachel¹⁴^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Chemical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel

2. Nuclear Research Center-Negev, Department of Chemistry, Beer-Sheva 84190, Israel

3. The Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and the Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel

4. The Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscience and Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel

Abstract

The chiral environment of enantiomerically pure d-alanine solutions is observed to disrupt and modify the entropy-driven assembly of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) into a chiral nematic mesophase.

Funder

Israel Science Foundation

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Materials Science

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2023/NR/D3NR03077F

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