Nanoscale, 6, 13421-13424: The unexpected flexibility of natural cellulose at a single-chain level and its implications to the design of nano materials
writer：Yu Bao, Hu-Jun Qian, Zhong-Yuan Lu* and Shuxun Cui*
keywords：cellulose, single chain
source：期刊
specific source：Nanoscale, 6, 13421-13424
Issue time：2014年
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.