Issue 28, 2014
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Chemical Communications

Water tuned the helical nanostructures and supramolecular chirality in organogels†

Changxia Liu,a   Qingxian Jin,ab   Kai Lv,a   Li Zhang*a  and  Minghua Liu*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Science, CAS Key Laboratory of Colloid, Interface and Chemical Thermodynamics, Institute of Chemistry, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China
E-mail: liumh@iccas.ac.cn, zhangli@iccas.ac.cn

b Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Surface & Interface Science, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Zhengzhou, Henan 450002, P.R. China

Abstract

Water was found to tune the self-assembled nanostructures of a cationic amphiphile in organic solvents from nanofibers to helical tapes, helical tubes and chiral nanotwists with various pitch lengths depending on water content. Inversion of CD spectra was observed in the water-triggered polar and non-polar solvent gels.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4CC00311J
Article type
Communication
Submitted
14 Jan 2014
Accepted
10 Feb 2014
First published
11 Feb 2014

Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 3702-3705

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Water tuned the helical nanostructures and supramolecular chirality in organogels

C. Liu, Q. Jin, K. Lv, L. Zhang and M. Liu, Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 3702 DOI: 10.1039/C4CC00311J

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