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Chem. Commun., 2009, 6819 - 6821, DOI: 10.1039/b913286d


Aqueous nanofibers with switchable chirality formed of self-assembled dumbbell-shaped rod amphiphiles

Zhegang Huang, Eunji Lee, Ho-Joong Kim and Myongsoo Lee


We have demonstrated that fibrillar aggregates formed from the self-assembly of a dumbbell-shaped rod amphiphile undergo a reversible chiral–non-chiral transition triggered by temperature.

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