Issue 41, 2020

Solvent-driven chirality for luminescent self-assembled structures: experiments and theory

Abstract

We describe, for a single platinum complex bearing a dipeptide moiety, a solvent-driven interconversion from twisted to straight micrometric assembled structures with different chirality. The photophysical and morphological properties of the aggregates have been investigated as well as the role of the media and concentration. A real-time visualization of the solvent-driven interconversion processes has been achieved by confocal microscopy. Finally, atomistic and coarse-grained simulations, providing results consistent with the experimental observations, allow to obtain a molecular-level insight into the interesting solvent-responsive behavior of this system.

Graphical abstract: Solvent-driven chirality for luminescent self-assembled structures: experiments and theory

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
14 Jun 2020
Accepted
12 Oct 2020
First published
16 Oct 2020
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Nanoscale, 2020,12, 21359-21367

Solvent-driven chirality for luminescent self-assembled structures: experiments and theory

C. Lochenie, A. Insuasty, T. Battisti, L. Pesce, A. Gardin, C. Perego, M. Dentinger, D. Wang, G. M. Pavan, A. Aliprandi and L. De Cola, Nanoscale, 2020, 12, 21359 DOI: 10.1039/D0NR04524A

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