Issue 1, 2018
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Nanoscale Horizons

Nematic structuring of transparent and multifunctional nanocellulose papers†

M. Zhao,a   F. Ansari, ORCID logo b   M. Takeuchi,a   M. Shimizu, ORCID logo a   T. Saito, ORCID logo *a   L. A. Berglund ORCID logo *b  and  A. Isogai ORCID logo a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Biomaterial Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
E-mail: asaitot@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

b Wallenberg Wood Science Center and Department of Fibre and Polymer Technology, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
E-mail: blund@kth.se

Abstract

The nematic structuring of cellulose nanofibers (CNFs) is proposed as a nanostructural engineering tool for exploiting the potential of CNFs in conceptually new “transparent papers”. The nematic-structured CNF papers exhibit superior mechanical properties, optical transparency, gas-barrier properties, heat transfer properties and electrical resistivity, compared with conventional randomly-structured CNF papers.

Graphical abstract: Nematic structuring of transparent and multifunctional nanocellulose papers

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C7NH00104E
Article type
Communication
Submitted
21 Jul 2017
Accepted
08 Sep 2017
First published
08 Sep 2017

Nanoscale Horiz., 2018,3, 28-34

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Nematic structuring of transparent and multifunctional nanocellulose papers

M. Zhao, F. Ansari, M. Takeuchi, M. Shimizu, T. Saito, L. A. Berglund and A. Isogai, Nanoscale Horiz., 2018, 3, 28 DOI: 10.1039/C7NH00104E

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