Issue 38, 2010

Creating chirality in the inner walls of silicananotubes through a hydrogel template: chiral transcription and chiroptical switch

Abstract

An L- or D-glutamic acid based bolaamphiphile was found to form uniform helical nanotubes in water, which were used as the template to generate silica nanotubes. The formed silica nanotubes have supramolecular chirality in the inner walls, and were further used to load photoactive azobenzene moieties to realize a chiroptical switch.

Graphical abstract: Creating chirality in the inner walls of silica nanotubes through a hydrogel template: chiral transcription and chiroptical switch

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
13 Apr 2010
Accepted
08 Jul 2010
First published
18 Aug 2010

Chem. Commun., 2010,46, 7178-7180

Creating chirality in the inner walls of silica nanotubes through a hydrogel template: chiral transcription and chiroptical switch

J. Jiang, T. Wang and M. Liu, Chem. Commun., 2010, 46, 7178 DOI: 10.1039/C0CC00891E

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