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SUBMITTER: van Dijken DJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5396556 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
van Dijken D J DJ Štacko P P Stuart M C A MCA Browne W R WR Feringa B L BL
Chemical science 20161117 3
The concept of using chirality to dictate dimensions and to store chiral information in self-assembled nanotubes in a fully controlled manner is presented. We report a photoresponsive amphiphile that co-assembles with its chiral counterpart to form nanotubes and demonstrate how chirality can be used to effect the formation of either micrometer long, achiral nanotubes or shorter (∼300 nm) chiral nanotubes that are bundled. The nature of these assemblies is studied using a variety of spectroscopic ...[more]