Mark MacLachlan

Flexible photonic materials from cellulose nanocrystals for stimuli-responsive applications (e.g., pressure sensors)
Stimuli-responsive gelation
Nanostructured catalysts for low-temperature methane oxidation
Supramolecular compounds for stimuli-driven molecular delivery
Molecular cluster templating inside shape-persistent macrocycles

Y. Cao, P.-X. Wang, F. D’Acierno, W.Y. Hamad, C.A. Michal, M.J. MacLachlan. Tunable Diffraction Gratings from Biosourced Lyotropic Liquid Crystals. Adv. Mater. 32, 1907376 (2020).
C.E. Boott, A. Tran, W.Y. Hamad, M.J. MacLachlan. Cellulose Nanocrystal Elastomers with Reversible Visible Color. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 59, 226-231 (2020).
M.A. Soto, V. Carta, R.J. Andrews, M.T. Chaudhry, M.J. MacLachlan. Structural Elucidation of Selective Solvatochromism in a Responsive-at-metal Cyclometalated Platinum(II) Complex. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 59, 10348-10352 (2020).
Kose, A. Tran, L. Lewis, W.Y. Hamad, M.J. MacLachlan. Unwinding a Spiral of Cellulose Nanocrystals for Stimuli-Responsive Stretchable Optics. Nat. Commun. 10, 510 (2019).
K.E. Shopsowitz, H. Qi, W.Y. Hamad, M.J. MacLachlan. Free-standing mesoporous silica films with tunable chiral nematic structures. Nature 468, 422 (2010).