Cover Feature: Chirality Transfer from an Innately Chiral Nanocrystal Core to a Nematic Liquid Crystal 2: Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals (ChemPhysChem 3/2023)

Abstract

The Cover Feature illustrates the formation of homochiral nematic lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal tactoids formed by disodium cromoglycate in water by the addition of cromoglycate surface-modified cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) as chiral solutes. Using CNCs with an inherently chiral core reveals that biorenewable chiral solutes can serve as suitably powerful and increasingly multipurpose chiral additives. More information can be found in the Research Article by Diana P. N. Gonçalves, Timothy Ogolla, and Torsten Hegmann.