Issue 48, 2019

Nonspherical chiral helical polymer particles with programmable morphology prepared by electrospraying

Abstract

Chirality and chiral materials demonstrate ever-growing importance. As a new type of chiral material, chiral polymer particles hold huge potential in both scientific research and practical applications. Meanwhile, nonspherical polymer particles (NPPs) have witnessed substantial progress in recent years because of their unique structures and especially the properties distinguishable from the corresponding spherical particles. We hypothesize that combining chirality with NPPs will open up an unprecedented category of advanced materials. The present contribution reports the first protocol for preparing electrosprayed nonspherical chiral particles constructed from chiral helical polymers, using helical substituted polyacetylenes as the model. SEM images demonstrate the successful fabrication of nonspherical chiral particles with tunable morphologies (bowl-, golf- and apple-like particles). Circular dichroism (CD) measurement proves the remarkable optical activity of the particles, which is observed in the predominantly one-handed helical polymer chains. The present work establishes a novel, versatile, and powerful platform for preparing nonspherical chiral polymer particles with controllable morphology.

Graphical abstract: Nonspherical chiral helical polymer particles with programmable morphology prepared by electrospraying

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
11 Sep 2019
Accepted
06 Nov 2019
First published
07 Nov 2019

Nanoscale, 2019,11, 23197-23205

Nonspherical chiral helical polymer particles with programmable morphology prepared by electrospraying

P. Li, K. Pan and J. Deng, Nanoscale, 2019, 11, 23197 DOI: 10.1039/C9NR07816A

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