Structural evolution from disordered to fibrous assembly via a dual visual dissipative pathway

Abstract

In this work, calixpyridinium was found to be a good building block for constructing an unusual artificial dissipative system with a proton donor by using an alkali as the fuel. Inspired by this, the structural evolution from disordered to fibrous assembly based on a calixpyridinium–indigo carmine system via a dual visual dissipative pathway with an alkali as the fuel was achieved. This was further applied in mimicking an alkaline biological molecule-driven dissipative process in real samples.