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. The effect is specific to d-alanine and cannot be attributed to the adsorption of alanine molecules (neither d- nor l-alanine) onto the CNC particles.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 16890-16895 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Nanoscale |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 42 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 5 Oct 2023 |
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