Helical Twisting of Electrospun Liquid Crystalline Cellulose Micro‐ and Nanofibers

This work was supported by the Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT) through Projects POCI/CTM/56382/2004 and POCTI/CTM/38330/2001, and through Pluriannual contracts with CENIMAT/I3N and ICEMS; and by the GRICES/Treaty of Windsor Programme through grant no. B-20/08. J. P. Canejo gratefully acknowledges FCT for grant SFRH/BD/37958/2007.

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