@article {Fernandes2016465,
	title = {Cellulose-based nanostructures for photoresponsive surfaces},
	journal = {Cellulose},
	volume = {23},
	number = {1},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {465-476},
	publisher = {Springer Netherlands},
	abstract = {Cellulose is the main constituent of plant cell walls and can be converted into a wide range of derivatives. The derivatives are produced by a chemical reaction of the primary and two secondary hydroxyl groups available in β-d-glucopyranose units, often in heterogeneous conditions, yielding, in many cases, <3 average degrees of substitution per glucose unit. Here we profit from the richness of these systems and different assembly conditions building up from similar nanomicelles, with a characteristic length of ca. 30~nm, different nanostructures: lamellas and filaments that show dissimilar responses to UV irradiation. The chosen cellulose derivative was a thermotropic~liquid crystal synthesized by the reaction of 4-(4-methoxyazobenzene-4'-yloxy)butanoyl chloride and acetoxypropylcellulose. The nanostructures were obtained from this cellulose derivative by using spin-coating as well as Langmuir{\textendash}Blodgett techniques. The nanostructures with a high surface-to-volume ratio, which can be freestanding or grown off a substrate, lead to organic tunable interfacial templates with distinct wettability properties. {\textcopyright} 2015, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.},
	keywords = {Assembly condition, Cellulose, Cellulose derivatives, Characteristic length, Heterogeneous conditions, High surface-to-volume ratio, Hydroxyl groups, Liquid crystals, Nanofilaments, Nanostructures, Photo-responsive, Thermotropic liquid crystals, Tunable interfacial templates, Wetting},
	issn = {09690239},
	doi = {10.1007/s10570-015-0815-8},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84955716824\&doi=10.1007\%2fs10570-015-0815-8\&partnerID=40\&md5=41f526c6a69b1da12a6d122d07f8e184},
	author = {Fernandes, S.N.a and Aguirre, L.E.a and Pontes, R.V.a and Canejo, J.P.a and Brogueira, P.b and Terentjev, E.M.c and Godinho, M.H.a}
}
