期刊
CELLULOSE
卷 20, 期 3, 页码 1401-1411出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10570-013-9888-4
关键词
Cellulose nanocrystals; Self-assembly; Chiral nematic films; Iridescence; Temperature; Evaporation rate
资金
- Industrial Research and Development Fellowships from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
A method to produce predefined patterns in solid iridescent films of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) by differential heating of aqueous CNC suspensions during film casting has been discovered. Placing materials of different temperatures beneath an evaporating CNC suspension results in watermark-like patterns of different reflection wavelength incorporated within the final film structure. The patterned areas are of different thickness and different chiral nematic pitch than the surrounding film; heating results in thicker areas of longer pitch. Thermal pattern creation in CNC films is proposed to be caused by differences in evaporation rates and thermal motion in the areas of the CNC suspension corresponding to the pattern-producing object and the surrounding, unperturbed suspension. Pattern formation was found to occur during the final stages of drying during film casting, once the chiral nematic structure is kinetically trapped in the gel state. It is thus possible to control the reflection wavelength of CNC films by an external process in the absence of additives.
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