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Area of Science:

  • Supramolecular chemistry
  • Organic self-assembly
  • Nanotechnology

Background:

  • Precise organization of organic molecules into homochiral double-helices is challenging.
  • Controlling self-assembly and chirality transfer across scales is difficult.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To report a hierarchical self-assembly mechanism for chirality-controlled nanoscale double-helices.
  • To investigate efficient energy transfer and circularly polarized luminescence.

Main Methods:

  • Solvent-mixing self-assembly protocol for bisnaphthalene bisurea molecules.
  • Formation of chiral discrete rosettes via hydrogen bonding.
  • Hierarchical assembly into nanofibers and then double-helices.

Main Results:

  • Chirality-controlled nanoscale double-helices were successfully fabricated.
  • Hierarchical organization enabled effective excitation energy delocalization.
  • Near-unity energy transfer to acceptor dyes resulted in bright circularly polarized luminescence.

Conclusions:

  • A hierarchical strategy for fabricating homochiral double-helices was established.
  • The study provides insights into high-efficiency light-harvesting processes.
  • This method offers a pathway for designing advanced nanomaterials.