Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 11, Issue 14, Pages 13114-13122Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b00471
Keywords
cellulose nanocrystal; saccharides; color variation; hydrogen bond; mesoporous carbon
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51473131, 51533007, 21775116]
- DICP Innovation Funding [DICP-RC201801]
- Wuhan Morning Light Plan of Youth Science and Technology
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Biological photonic nanostructures comprising a hierarchically self-assembled cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) have been exploited for the development of sensing, optoelectronics, and energy materials. Although multiple techniques are used for controlling the optical response and chiral nematic structure of CNC-derived materials, the presence of external studies that pristine CNC has chemoselectivity is not yet reported to implement this destination. Here, we report that the CNC film without modification shows a high optical sensitivity for glucose through color variation from blue to red. Moreover, various glucose homologs or analogs that only differ in terms of the orientation of a hydroxyl group are selectively distinguished through the naked eye. The excellent chemoselectivity of CNC is attributed to carbohydrate-carbohydrate selective hydrogen-bonding interactions. Close binding with glucose induces the rearrangement of a CNC chain and strengthens the repulsive interaction, thus increasing the helical pitch of the chiral nematic structure of the CNC film and changing its macroscopic color. This CNC chemoselectivity presents an unprecedented control of chiral nematic mesoporous carbon through monosaccharide species. The results provide a simple but highly efficient method to tune the optical and structural properties of CNC nanomaterials and to apply them for practical biosensors, chiral separation, and energy applications.
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