Issue 22, 2014
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Nanoscale

The unexpected flexibility of natural cellulose at a single-chain level and its implications to the design of nano materials†

Yu Bao,a   Hu-Jun Qian,b   Zhong-Yuan Lu*b  and  Shuxun Cui*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Key Lab of Advanced Technologies of Materials, Ministry of Education of China, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China
E-mail: cuishuxun@swjtu.edu.cn

b State Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130023, China
E-mail: luzhy@jlu.edu.cn

Abstract

At crystal or larger scales, natural cellulose was generally recognized to be a rigid material. Our single-chain mechanical measurements, however, reveal that the natural cellulose is as flexible as common synthetic polymers at the single-chain level, creating new opportunities in the designing of nano materials.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4NR04862H
Article type
Communication
Submitted
22 Aug 2014
Accepted
09 Sep 2014
First published
11 Sep 2014

Nanoscale, 2014,6, 13421-13424

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The unexpected flexibility of natural cellulose at a single-chain level and its implications to the design of nano materials

Y. Bao, H. Qian, Z. Lu and S. Cui, Nanoscale, 2014, 6, 13421 DOI: 10.1039/C4NR04862H

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