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Area of Science:

  • Materials Science
  • Biomimetics
  • Liquid Crystals

Background:

  • Cholesteric architectures with helicoidal periodicity are promising for artificial materials.
  • Integrating these into fibrous systems expands design possibilities.
  • Preserving liquid crystal meta-periodicity during spinning is challenging due to instability.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a method for creating continuous cholesteric ordered fibrous structures (CLO fibers).
  • To stabilize the meta-periodicity of lyotropic liquid crystals during dynamic spinning.
  • To investigate the mechanical properties and tunability of the resulting CLO fibers.

Main Methods:

  • Balancing the viscoelasticity of a cholesteric precursor.
  • Utilizing large molecular size and strong excluded volume for dynamic stabilization.
  • Continuous spinning process to form CLO fibers.

Main Results:

  • Successfully fabricated continuous cholesteric ordered fibrous structures (CLO fibers).
  • Achieved exceptional mechanical performance: ultimate tensile stress up to 25.37 MPa and Young's modulus up to 152.36 MPa.
  • Demonstrated remarkable weavability and unprecedented structural tunability.

Conclusions:

  • The developed approach effectively stabilizes liquid crystal meta-periodicity for continuous fiber fabrication.
  • CLO fibers offer significant potential for advanced materials with tailored topologies.
  • Broadens applications in intelligent wearables, information storage, and biomedical fields.