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SUBMITTER: Yang D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5467208 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yang Dong D Duan Pengfei P Zhang Li L Liu Minghua M
Nature communications 20170606
Transfer of both chirality and energy information plays an important role in biological systems. Here we show a chiral donor π-gelator and assembled it with an achiral π-acceptor to see how chirality and energy can be transferred in a composite donor-acceptor system. It is found that the individual chiral gelator can self-assemble into nanohelix. In the presence of the achiral acceptor, the self-assembly can also proceed and lead to the formation of the composite nanohelix. In the composite nano ...[more]