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Water tuned the helical nanostructures and supramolecular chirality in organogels
Changxia Liu1, Qingxian Jin, Kai Lv
1Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Science, CAS Key Laboratory of Colloid, Interface and Chemical Thermodynamics, Institute of Chemistry, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P.R. China. liumh@iccas.ac.cn zhangli@iccas.ac.cn.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|February 28, 2014
Abstract:
Water was found to tune the self-assembled nanostructures of a cationic amphiphile in organic solvents from nanofibers to helical tapes, helical tubes and chiral nanotwists with various pitch lengths depending on water content. Inversion of CD spectra was observed in the water-triggered polar and non-polar solvent gels.
