Nanotrumpets and circularly polarized luminescent nanotwists hierarchically self-assembled from an achiral C3-symmetric ester

Yutao Sang; Pengfei Duan; Minghua Liu

doi:10.1039/C8CC02130A

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Nanotrumpets and circularly polarized luminescent nanotwists hierarchically self-assembled from an achiral C₃-symmetric ester†

Yutao Sang,^ab Pengfei Duan

^c and Minghua Liu

*^abcd

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^a CAS Key Laboratory of Colloid, Interface and Chemical Thermodynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China
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^b University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

^c National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China, P. R. China

^d Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin, P. R. China

Abstract

An achiral C₃-symmetric molecule was found to self-assemble into various hierarchical nanostructures such as nanotwists, nanotrumpets and nanobelts, in which the twisted fibers showed supramolecular chirality as well as circularly polarized luminescence although the compound is achiral.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C8CC02130A
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 16 Mar 2018
Accepted: 26 Mar 2018
First published: 27 Mar 2018

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Chem. Commun., 2018,54, 4025-4028

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Nanotrumpets and circularly polarized luminescent nanotwists hierarchically self-assembled from an achiral C₃-symmetric ester

Y. Sang, P. Duan and M. Liu, Chem. Commun., 2018, 54, 4025 DOI: 10.1039/C8CC02130A

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