Chirality enhancement in macro-chiral liquid crystal nanoparticles
Open Access
- 17 September 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Materials Horizons
- Vol. 7 (11) , 3021-3027
Abstract
Chirality amplification in mesomorphic gold nanoparticles (NPs) functionalized with chiral ligands and liquid crystal (LC) groups in LC matrices is detected. Attaching LC groups to NPs leads to a significant increase of the helical twisting power.Keywords
Funding Information
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/M015726)
- China Scholarship Council
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (21774099)
- Higher Education Discipline Innovation Project (BP2018008)
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