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Synthesis and Characterization of Supramolecular Colloids
Published on: April 22, 2016
Static Retention of Dynamic Chiral Arrangements for Achiral Shear Thinning Metal-Organic Colloids
Jian-Cai Huang1,2, Hui Xiao1,2, Zhixin Chen3
1College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350116, P. R. China.
Abstract:
Chiral compounds are known to be important not only because they are the fundamental components of living organisms, but also for their unique chiroptical properties. In recent years, scientists have fabricated several chiral organic supramolecular aggregates by using chiral physical fields, such as vortex flow. Herein, the relationship between dynamic chiroptical properties and rheological nature is discussed, suggesting the shear thinning properties of non-Newtonian fluids might help colloidal particles adopt a chiral arrangement in vortices. Furthermore, the storage modulus of colloids could be increased by adding a linking agent, which successfully kept the dynamic chiroptical properties in the static state. Moreover, the salt effect on the host-guest interaction involved in the colloids was studied, the results suggested a significant enhancement of the transferred dynamic circular dichroism for the achiral guest molecule.
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