title: The unexpected flexibility of natural cellulose at a single-chain level and its implications to the design of nano materials.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Key Lab of Advanced Technologies of Materials, Ministry of Education of China, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China. cuishuxun@swjtu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Bao
authors.forename: Hu-Jun
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Qian
authors.forename: Zhong-Yuan
authors.initials: ZY
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Shuxun
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cui