The ultrasonic effect on the lyotropic chiral nematic liquid crystal(N
*
-LC) of cellulose nanocrystal(CNC) and optical properties of the solid N
*
-LC film were investigated by using polarized light microscopy(POM)
UV-visible spectroscopy(UV-vis)
X-ray diffraction(XRD) analysis
and electric conductivity
etc. It is found that the pitch of the N
*
-LC was stretched with the increase of the ultrasonic power. The reflection wave length of the N
*
-LC solid film was red-shifted with the increase of the ultrasonic power. The amplitude of the red-shift of reflection wave length depended on the applied ultrasonic power. The conductivity of the lyotropic N
*
-LC increased after ultrasound treatment. As a consequence
it is speculated that the high power ultrasonic treatment releases some of the ions trapped in the bounded electric double layer on the surface of CNC particles
which make the electrostatic repulsion between CNC increasing. So the increase in the repulsion force resulted in a larger pitch and a red-shift of the iridescence wavelength of the resulting solid film.
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