{"id":58,"date":"2010-11-27T18:55:17","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T18:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicmaterials.ca\/wordpress\/?p=58"},"modified":"2015-09-17T16:07:27","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T16:07:27","slug":"research-highlight-free-standing-mesoporous-silica-films-with-tunable-chiral-nematic-structures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cscmaterials.ca\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"Research Highlight: Free-standing mesoporous silica films with tunable chiral nematic structures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authors: Kevin E. Shopsowitz, Hao Qi, Wadood Y. Hamad, and Mark J. MacLachlan, University of British Columbia<\/p>\n<p>A research team at the University of British Columbia led by Professor Mark MacLachlan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v468\/n7322\/full\/nature09540.html\">reported a method<\/a> to prepare mesoporous silica templated using the chiral helical structure of nanocrysalline cellulose. The films exhibit irridescent colours due to the structure of the cellulose, which can be tuned across the visible spectrum by varing the synthetic conditions. The use of nanocrystalline cellulose offers great potential as a very inexpensive, naturally abundant template.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_59\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v468\/n7322\/full\/nature09540.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-59\" title=\"nature09540-f2.2\" src=\"http:\/\/cicmaterials.ca\/wordpress2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/nature09540-f2.2-300x262.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cscmaterials.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/nature09540-f2.2-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cscmaterials.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/nature09540-f2.2.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-59\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: Nature, doi:10.1038\/nature09540, copyright 2010.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Media coverage:<br \/>\nCBC News: <a href=\"http:\/\/license.icopyright.net\/user\/viewFreeUse.act?fuid=MTA5MTcwMzI=\">B.C. scientists make colour-changing glass <\/a><br \/>\nVancouver Sun: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/business\/wood+pulp+could+form+glass\/3881773\/story.html\">B.C. wood pulp could be key to new form of glass<\/a><br \/>\nNature News &amp; Views: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v468\/n7322\/full\/468387a.html\">Thin films with a hidden twist<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Dr. MacLachlan was interviewed on CBC&#8217;s Quirks and Quarks! Here is a link to the MP3: <a href=\"http:\/\/cbc.ca\/quirks\/media\/2010-2011\/qq-2010-12-04_05.mp3\">http:\/\/cbc.ca\/quirks\/media\/2010-2011\/qq-2010-12-04_05.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UBC researchers have reported a new colour-changing glass made from mesoporous silica templated with nanocrystalline cellulose. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[24,25,28,31,35,41,49],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highlights","tag-mark-maclachlan","tag-mesoporous-silica","tag-nanocrystalline-cellulose","tag-nature","tag-photonic-structures","tag-researchhighlight","tag-ubc","nodate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cscmaterials.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cscmaterials.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cscmaterials.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cscmaterials.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cscmaterials.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cscmaterials.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/cscmaterials.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cscmaterials.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cscmaterials.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cscmaterials.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}