Supramolecular chiral polymeric aggregates: Construction and applications

G Zhang, X Cheng, Y Wang, W Zhang - Aggregate, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Inspired by the mystery of natural homochirality, the design and construction of artificial
chiral systems with special functions including mechanics, chiroptical devices, and chiral …

Chirality-sensing supramolecular systems

GA Hembury, VV Borovkov, Y Inoue - Chemical reviews, 2008 - ACS Publications
Chirality that is induced, monitored, controlled, or applied via the principles of a
supramolecular approach is a modern interdisciplinary field of research that deals with …

Transfer, amplification, storage, and complete self‐recovery of supramolecular chirality in an achiral polymer system

T Miao, X Cheng, H Ma, Z He, Z Zhang… - Angewandte …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Supramolecular chirality and its complete self‐recovery ability are highly mystical in nature
and biological systems, which remains a major challenge today. Herein, we demonstrate …

Recent progress in photoswitchable supramolecular self‐assembling systems

X Yao, T Li, J Wang, X Ma, H Tian - Advanced Optical Materials, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The rise of supramolecular chemistry has drawn great attention to the designed self‐
assembly of synthetic molecules. Supramolecular self‐assembly has become an efficient …

Self-recovery of chiral microphase separation in an achiral diblock copolymer system

T Miao, X Cheng, G Zhang, Y Wang, Z He, Z Wang… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Macroscopic regulation of chiral supramolecular nanostructures in liquid-crystalline block
copolymers is of great significance in photonics and nanotechnology. Although fabricating …

Optical and physical applications of photocontrollable materials: Azobenzene-containing and liquid crystalline polymers

A Emoto, E Uchida, T Fukuda - Polymers, 2012 - mdpi.com
Photocontrol of molecular alignment is an exceptionally-intelligent and useful strategy. It
enables us to control optical coefficients, peripheral molecular alignments, surface relief …

Polymerization‐Induced Helicity Inversion Driven by Stacking Modes and Self‐Assembly Pathway Differentiation

X Cheng, T Miao, H Ma, J Zhang, Z Zhang, W Zhang… - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Regulating the mutual stacking arrangements is of great interest for understanding the origin
of chirality at different hierarchical levels in nature. Different from molecular level chirality …

[HTML][HTML] Preparation of chiral polymers: Precise chirality transfer from natural species to achiral artificial polymers

T Miao, X Cheng, Y Guo, G Zhang, W Zhang - Giant, 2023 - Elsevier
The synthesis of chiral substances, especially chiral polymers is currently one of the hottest
issues in the field of chiral materials and chemistry due to their unique structural …

[PDF][PDF] Light-driven supramolecular chirality in propeller-like hydrogen-bonded complexes that show columnar mesomorphism

F Vera, RM Tejedor, P Romero, J Barberá… - … EDITION IN ENGLISH …, 2007 - academia.edu
Nature offers many beautiful examples of biological systems whose unique functionalities
arise from a well-defined helical organization as the expression of supramolecular …

Photoinduced chiral nematic organization in an achiral glassy nematic azopolymer

RM Tejedor, L Oriol, JL Serrano… - Advanced Functional …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
A liquid crystalline homopolymer that has photoisomerizable methoxyazobenzene groups in
the side chain has been synthesized and characterized. Thin films of the nematic glassy …