Issue 7, 2015

Strong circularly polarized luminescence from the supramolecular gels of an achiral gelator: tunable intensity and handedness

Abstract

Although the importance of circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) materials has been widely recognized, the CPL responses of supramolecular gels are still rarely studied. Moreover, developing CPL materials based on supramolecular gels is of great significance, due to their special advantages and important applications. Herein, we report the first circularly polarized supramolecular gels self-assembled exclusively from a simple achiral C3-symmetric molecule. Most importantly, the excellent tunability of these novel CPL materials, which benefits from achiral molecular building blocks as well as the nature of supramolecular gels, has been investigated. Thus, the CPL intensity of these supramolecular gels is easily enhanced by mechanical stirring or doping chiral amines. The handedness of CPL signals is controlled by the chirality of organic amines.

Graphical abstract: Strong circularly polarized luminescence from the supramolecular gels of an achiral gelator: tunable intensity and handedness

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Article information

Article type
Edge Article
Submitted
24 Mar 2015
Accepted
27 Apr 2015
First published
30 Apr 2015
This article is Open Access

All publication charges for this article have been paid for by the Royal Society of Chemistry
Creative Commons BY license

Chem. Sci., 2015,6, 4267-4272

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Strong circularly polarized luminescence from the supramolecular gels of an achiral gelator: tunable intensity and handedness

Z. Shen, T. Wang, L. Shi, Z. Tang and M. Liu, Chem. Sci., 2015, 6, 4267 DOI: 10.1039/C5SC01056J

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