Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces

Publications

Prof. Silvia Vignolini

Journal Article (155)

Journal Article

Warnes, D.; Lim, J. H.; Parker, R. M.; Frka-Petesic, B.; Freshwater, R.; Honorato, C.; Ogawa, Y.; Giorio, C.; Vignolini, S.: Tuning the morphology of aerosolised cellulose nanocrystals via controlled aggregation. Carbohydrate Polymers 373, 124592 (2026)

MPG.PuRe

publisher-version

Journal Article

Cerqueira, M. A.; Vogel, N.; Lopez‐Garcia, M.; Velikov, K. P.; Vignolini, S.; Pastrana, L. M.: Could edible photonic structures be an alternative to traditional food coloring? Advanced Optical Materials, e02260 (2025)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Hassan, F.; Chan, C. L. C.; Parton, T.; Wang, Z.; Shen, Q.; Li, R.; Frka-Petesic, B.; Parker, R. M.; Vignolini, S.: Tuning the circularly polarized reflection from cholesteric hydroxypropyl cellulose using molecular photoswitches. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, e20839 (2025)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Escobar Doncel, Á.; Patinios, C.; Campos, A.; Walter Costa, M. B.; Turkina, M. V.; Murace, M.; Staals, R. H. J.; Vignolini, S.; Dutilh, B. E.; Ingham, C.: Deletion of the moeA gene in Flavobacterium IR1 drives structural color shift from green to blue and alters polysaccharide metabolism. eLife (2025)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Arnould-Pétré, M.; Vignolini, S.; Brodie, J.: Structural colour in red seaweeds is more common and diverse than has been presumed. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 22 (230), 20250342 (2025)

MPG.PuRe

publisher-version

Journal Article

Ballu, K.; Lim, J.-H.; Parton, T.; Parker, R. M.; Frka-Petesic, B.; Lapkin, A. A.; Ogawa, Y.; Vignolini, S.: Tailoring the morphology of cellulose nanocrystals via controlled aggregation. ACS Nano 19 (27), pp. 25228 - 25242 (2025)

MPG.PuRe

publisher-version

Journal Article

Chua, S. T.; Kotar, J.; Kühl, M.; Smith, A. G.; Vignolini, S.; Cicuta, P.: Uncoupling growth and division in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii colonies: consistent cell cycle regulation under confinement. ISME Communications 5 (1), ycaf104 (2025)

MPG.PuRe

publisher-version

Journal Article

Gavriilidou, A.; Murace, M.; Portoghese, M.; Schouten, S.; Hamidjaja, R.; Doncel, Á. E.; Boeren, S.; Giesbers, M.; Capoulade, J.; Vignolini, S. et al.; Smidt, H.; Ingham, C.: Pseudosulfitobacter pseudonitzschiae hitchhikes on gliding colonies of Cellulophaga lytica. ISME Communications 5 (1), ycaf118 (2025)

MPG.PuRe

publisher-version

Journal Article

Jiang, F.; Yu, K.; Kieffer, R.; de Jong, D.; Parker, R. M.; Vignolini, S.; Aubin-Tam, M.-E.: Thermochromic hydrogel with high transmittance modulation and fast response for flexible smart windows. Communications Materials 6, 239 (2025)

MPG.PuRe

publisher-version

Journal Article

Song, J.; Parker, R. M.; Frka-Petesic, B.; Deng, T.; Xu, L.; Deng, X.; Vignolini, S.; Shen, Q.: Spray-assisted fabrication of cellulose photonic pigments on superhydrophobic surfaces. Advanced Materials 37 (22), 2416607 (2025)

MPG.PuRe

publisher-version

Journal Article

Chua, S. T.; Smith, A.; Murthy, S.; Murace, M.; Yang, H.; Schertel, L.; Kühl, M.; Cicuta, P.; Smith, A. G.; Wangpraseurt, D. et al.; Vignolini, S.: Light management by algal aggregates in living photosynthetic hydrogels. PNAS 121 (23), e2316206121 (2024)

MPG.PuRe

publisher-version

Journal Article

Lundquist, C. R.; Rudall, P. J.; Sukri, R. S.; Conejero, M.; Smith, A.; Lopez-Garcia, M.; Vignolini, S.; Metali, F.; Whitney, H. M.: Living jewels: iterative evolution of iridescent blue leaves from helicoidal cell walls. Annals of Botany 134 (1), pp. 131 - 150 (2024)

MPG.PuRe

publisher-version

Journal Article

Parton, T.; Parker, R. M.; Osbild, S.; Vignolini, S.; Frka-Petesic, B.: Angle-resolved optical spectroscopy of photonic cellulose nanocrystal films reveals the influence of additives on the mechanism of kinetic arrest. Soft Matter 20 (17), pp. 3695 - 3707 (2024)

MPG.PuRe

publisher-version

Journal Article

Zomer, A.; Ingham, C. J.; von Meijenfeldt, F. A. B.; Escobar Doncel, Á.; van de Kerkhof, G. T.; Hamidjaja, R.; Schouten, S.; Schertel, L.; Müller, K. H.; Catón, L. et al.; Hahnke, R. L.; Bolhuis, H.; Vignolini, S.; Dutilh, B. E.: Structural color in the bacterial domain: the ecogenomics of a 2-dimensional optical phenotype. PNAS 121 (29), e2309757121 (2024)

MPG.PuRe

publisher-version

Journal Article

Frka-Petesic, B.; Parton, T.; Honorato, C.; Narkevicius, A.; Ballu, K.; Shen, Q.; Lu, Z.; Ogawa, Y.; Haataja, J. S.; Droguet, B. E. et al.; Parker, R. M.; Vignolini, S.: Structural color from cellulose nanocrystals or chitin nanocrystals: self-assembly, optics, and applications. Chemical Reviews 123 (23), pp. 12595 - 12756 (2023)

MPG.PuRe

publisher-version

Journal Article

Haataja, J.S.; Jacucci, G.; Parton, T.; Schertel, L.; Vignolini, S.: Topological invariance in whiteness optimisation. Communications Physics 6 (1), 137 (2023)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Kamita, G.; Vignolini, S.; Dumanli, A.G.: Edible cellulose-based colorimetric timer. Nanoscale Horizons 8 (7), pp. 887 - 891 (2023)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Kwon, J.; Parton, T.; Choi, Y.; Lee, S.-G.; Frka-Petesic, B.; Lee, J.; Vignolini, S.; Yeom, J.: Chiral Se nanobrooms with wavelength and polarization sensitive scattering. Advanced Functional Materials 33 (29), 2300927 (2023)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Lemcoff, T.; Alus, L.; Haataja, J.S.; Wagner, A.; Zhang, G.; Pavan, M.J.; Yallapragada, V.J.; Vignolini, S.; Oron, D.; Schertel, L. et al.; Palmer, B.A.: Brilliant whiteness in shrimp from ultra-thin layers of birefringent nanospheres. Nature Photonics 17 (6), pp. 485 - 493 (2023)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Ming, S.; Zhang, X.; Chan, C.L.C.; Wang, Z.; Bay, M.M.; Parker, R.M.; Vignolini, S.: Exploiting the thermotropic behavior of hydroxypropyl cellulose to produce edible photonic pigments. Advanced Sustainable Systems 7 (4), 202200469 (2023)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Nepal, D.; Kang, S.; Adstedt, K. M.; Kanhaiya, K.; Bockstaller, M. R.; Brinson, L. C.; Buehler, M. J.; Coveney, P. V.; Dayal, K.; El-Awady, J. A. et al.; Henderson, L. C.; Kaplan, D. L.; Keten, S.; Kotov, N. A.; Schatz, G. C.; Vignolini, S.; Vollrath, F.; Wang, Y.; Yakobson, B. I.; Tsukruk, V. V.; Heinz, H.: Hierarchically structured bioinspired nanocomposites. Nature Materials 22 (1), pp. 18 - 35 (2023)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Parker, R.M.; Parton, T.; Chan, C.L.C.; Bay, M.M.; Frka-Petesic, B.; Vignolini, S.: Bioinspired photonic materials from cellulose: fabrication, optical analysis, and applications. Accounts of Materials Research 4 (6), pp. 522 - 535 (2023)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Patel, M.; Alvarez-Fernandez, A.; Fornerod, M.J.; Radhakrishnan, A.N.P.; Taylor, A.; Ten Chua, S.; Vignolini, S.; Schmidt-Hansberg, B.; Iles, A.; Guldin, S.: Liquid crystal-templated porous microparticles via photopolymerization of temperature-induced droplets in a binary liquid mixture. ACS Omega 8 (23), pp. 20404 - 20411 (2023)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Sinnott-Armstrong, M. A.; Middleton, R.; Ogawa, Y.; Jacucci, G.; Moyroud, E.; Glover, B. J.; Rudall, P. J.; Vignolini, S.; Donoghue, M. J.: Multiple origins of lipid-based structural colors contribute to a gradient of fruit colors in Viburnum (Adoxaceae). New Phytologist 237 (2), pp. 643 - 655 (2023)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Wang, Z.; Li, R.; Zhang, Y.; Chan, C. L. C.; Haataja, J. S.; Yu, K.; Parker, R. M.; Vignolini, S.: Tuning the color of photonic glass pigments by thermal annealing. Advanced Materials 35 (34), 2207923 (2023)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Atifi, S.; Mirvakili, M. N.; Williams, C. A.; Bay, M. M.; Vignolini, S.; Hamad, W. Y.: Fast self-assembly of scalable photonic cellulose nanocrystals and hybrid films via electrophoresis. Advanced Materials 34 (12), 2109170 (2022)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Bay, M. M.; Vignolini, S.; Vynck, K.: PyLlama: A stable and versatile Python toolkit for the electromagnetic modelling of multilayered anisotropic media. Computer Physics Communications 273, 108256 (2022)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Chan, C. L. C.; Lei, I. M.; van de Kerkhof, G. T.; Parker, R. M.; Richards, K. D.; Evans, R. C.; Huang, Y. Y. S.; Vignolini, S.: 3D Printing of Liquid Crystalline Hydroxypropyl Cellulose—toward Tunable and Sustainable Volumetric Photonic Structures. Advanced Functional Materials 32 (15), 2108566 (2022)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Chen, X.; Lawrence, J. M.; Wey, L. T.; Schertel, L.; Jing, Q.; Vignolini, S.; Howe, C. J.; Kar-Narayan, S.; Zhang, J. Z.: 3D-printed hierarchical pillar array electrodes for high-performance semi-artificial photosynthesis. Nature Materials 21 (7), pp. 811 - 818 (2022)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Chiappini, M.; Dussi, S.; Frka-Petesic, B.; Vignolini, S.; Dijkstra, M.: Modeling the cholesteric pitch of apolar cellulose nanocrystal suspensions using a chiral hard-bundle model. The Journal of Chemical Physics 156 (1), 014904 (2022)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Droguet, B. E.; Liang, H. L.; Frka-Petesic, B.; Parker, R. M.; De Volder, M. F. L.; Baumberg, J. J.; Vignolini, S.: Large-scale fabrication of structurally coloured cellulose nanocrystal films and effect pigments. Nature Materials 21 (3), pp. 352 - 358 (2022)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Eichhorn, S. J.; Etale, A.; Wang, J.; Berglund, L. A.; Li, Y.; Cai, Y.; Chen, C.; Cranston, E. D.; Johns, M. A.; Fang, Z. et al.; Li, G.; Hu, L.; Khandelwal, M.; Lee, K. Y.; Oksman, K.; Pinitsoontorn, S.; Quero, F.; Sebastian, A.; Titirici, M. M.; Xu, Z.; Vignolini, S.; Frka-Petesic, B.: Current international research into cellulose as a functional nanomaterial for advanced applications. Journal of Materials Science 57 (10), pp. 5697 - 5767 (2022)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Guo, Q.; Xue, R.; Zhao, J.; Zhang, Y.; van de Kerkhof, G. T.; Zhang, K.; Li, Y.; Vignolini, S.; Song, D. P.: Precise Tailoring of Polyester Bottlebrush Amphiphiles toward Eco-Friendly Photonic Pigments via Interfacial Self-Assembly. Angewandte Chemie, International Edition 61 (34), e202206723 (2022)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Jaramillo-Fernandez, J.; Yang, H.; Schertel, L.; Whitworth, G. L.; Garcia, P. D.; Vignolini, S.; Sotomayor-Torres, C. M.: Highly-Scattering Cellulose-Based Films for Radiative Cooling. Advanced Science 9 (8), 2104758 (2022)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Narkevicius, A.; Parker, R. M.; Ferrer-Orri, J.; Parton, T.; Lu, Z.; van de Kerkhof, G. T.; Frka-Petesic, B.; Vignolini, S.: Revealing the structural coloration of self-assembled chitin nanocrystal films. Advanced Materials 34 (31), 2203300 (2022)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Parker, R. M.; Zhao, T. H.; Frka-Petesic, B.; Vignolini, S.: Cellulose photonic pigments. Nature Communications 13 (1), 3378 (2022)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Parton, T.; Parker, R. M.; van de Kerkhof, G. T.; Narkevicius, A.; Haataja, J. S.; Frka-Petesic, B.; Vignolini, S.: Chiral self-assembly of cellulose nanocrystals is driven by crystallite bundles. Nature Communications 13 (1), 2657 (2022)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Sinnott-Armstrong, M. A.; Ogawa, Y.; van de Kerkhof, G. T.; Vignolini, S.; Smith, S. D.: Convergent evolution of disordered lipidic structural colour in the fruits of Lantana strigocamara (syn. L. camara hybrid cultivar). New Phytologist 235 (3), pp. 898 - 906 (2022)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Tang, Y.; Yang, H.; Vignolini, S.: Recent Progress in Production Methods for Cellulose Nanocrystals: Leading to More Sustainable Processes. Advanced Sustainable Systems 6 (3), 2100100 (2022)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Titirici, M.; Baird, S. G.; Sparks, T. D.; Yang, S. M.; Brandt-Talbot, A.; Hosseinaei, O.; Harper, D. P.; Parker, R. M.; Vignolini, S.; Berglund, L. A. et al.; Li, Y.; Gao, H. L.; Mao, L. B.; Yu, S. H.; Díez, N.; Ferrero, G. A.; Sevilla, M.; Szilágyi, P. i.; Stubbs, C. J.; Worch, J. C.; Huang, Y.; Luscombe, C. K.; Lee, K. Y.; Luo, H.; Platts, M. J.; Tiwari, D.; Kovalevskiy, D.; Fermin, D. J.; Au, H.; Alptekin, H.; Crespo-Ribadeneyra, M.; Ting, V. P.; Fellinger, T. P.; Barrio, J.; Westhead, O.; Roy, C.; Stephens, I. E. L.; Nicolae, S. A.; Sarma, S. C.; Oates, R. P.; Wang, C. G.; Li, Z.; Loh, X. J.; Myers, R. J.; Heeren, N.; Grégoire, A.; Périssé, C.; Zhao, X.; Vodovotz, Y.; Earley, B.; Finnveden, G.; Björklund, A.; Harper, G. D. J.; Walton, A.; Anderson, P. A.: The sustainable materials roadmap. Journal of Physics: Materials 5 (3), 032001 (2022)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Van De Kerkhof, G. T.; Schertel, L.; Catòn, L.; Parton, T.; Müller, K. H.; Greer, H. F.; Ingham, C. J.; Vignolini, S.: Polysaccharide metabolism regulates structural colour in bacterial colonies. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 19 (190), pp. 505 - 511 (2022)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Wang, Z.; Chan, C. L. C.; Haataja, J. S.; Schertel, L.; Li, R.; van de Kerkhof, G. T.; Scherman, O. A.; Parker, R. M.; Vignolini, S.: Deconvoluting the Optical Response of Biocompatible Photonic Pigments. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 61 (34), e202206562 (2022)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Wang, Z.; Chan, C. L. C.; Parker, R. M.; Vignolini, S.: The Limited Palette for Photonic Block-Copolymer Materials: A Historical Problem or a Practical Limitation? Angewandte Chemie International Edition 61 (22), e202117275 (2022)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Wangpraseurt, D.; Sun, Y.; You, S.; Chua, S. T.; Noel, S. K.; Willard, H. F.; Berry, D. B.; Clifford, A. M.; Plummer, S.; Xiang, Y. et al.; Hwang, H. H.; Kaandorp, J.; Diaz, J. M.; La Jeunesse, T. C.; Pernice, M.; Vignolini, S.; Tresguerres, M.; Chen, S.: Bioprinted Living Coral Microenvironments Mimicking Coral-Algal Symbiosis. Advanced Functional Materials 32 (35), 2202273 (2022)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Zhu, W.; Droguet, B.; Shen, Q.; Zhang, Y.; Parton, T.; Shan, X.; Parker, R. M.; De Volder, M. F. L.; Deng, T.; Vignolini, S. et al.; Li, T.: Structurally colored radiative cooling cellulosic films. Advanced Science 9 (26), 2202061 (2022)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Barty-King, C. H.; Chan, C. L. C.; Parker, R. M.; Bay, M. M.; Vadrucci, R.; De Volder, M.; Vignolini, S.: Mechanochromic, structurally colored, and edible hydrogels prepared from hydroxypropyl cellulose and gelatin. Advanced Materials 33 (37), 2102112 (2021)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Brodie, J.; Ingham, C. J.; Vignolini, S.: Does structural color exist in true fungi? Journal of Fungi 7 (2), 141, pp. 1 - 5 (2021)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Chang, Y.; Middleton, R.; Ogawa, Y.; Gregory, T.; Steiner, L. M.; Kovalev, A.; Karanja, R. H. N.; Rudall, P. J.; Glover, B. J.; Gorb, S. N. et al.; Vignolini, S.: Cell wall composition determines handedness reversal in helicoidal cellulose architectures of Pollia condensata fruits. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118 (51), e2111723118 (2021)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Guidetti, G.; Frka-Petesic, B.; Dumanli, A. G.; Hamad, W. Y.; Vignolini, S.: Effect of thermal treatments on chiral nematic cellulose nanocrystal films. Carbohydrate Polymers 272, 118404 (2021)

MPG.PuRe

Journal Article

Jacucci, G.; Longbottom, B. W.; Parkins, C. C.; Bon, S. A. F.; Vignolini, S.: Anisotropic silica colloids for light scattering. Journal of Materials Chemistry C 9 (8), pp. 2695 - 2700 (2021)

MPG.PuRe