Aesthetic Cellulose Filaments with Water-Triggered Switchable Internal Stress and Customizable Polarized Iridescence Toward Green Fashion Innovation

Healthy, convenient, and aesthetic hair dyeing and styling are essential to fashion trends and personal-social interactions. Herein, we fabricate green, scalable, and aesthetic regenerated cellulose filaments (ACFs) with customizable iridescent colors, outstanding mechanical properties, and water-triggered moldability for convenient and fashionable artificial hairdressing. The fabrication of ACFs involves cellulose dissolution, cross-linking, wet-spinning, and nanostructured orientation. Notably, the cross-linking strategy endows the ACFs with significantly weakened internal stress, confirmed by monitoring the offset of the C-O-C group in the cellulose molecular chain with Raman imaging, which ensures a tailorable orientation of the nanostructure during wet stretching and tunable iridescent polarization colors. Interestingly, ACFs can be tailored for three-dimensional shaping through a facile water-triggered adjustable internal stress: temporary shaping with low-level internal stress in the wet state and permanent shaping with high-level internal stress in the dry state. The health, convenience, and green aesthetic filaments show great potential in personal wearables.