Synchronous quantitative analysis of chiral mesostructured inorganic crystals by 3D electron diffraction tomography

Jing Ai; Xueliang Zhang; Te Bai; Qing Shen; Peter Oleynikov; Yingying Duan; Osamu Terasaki; Shunai Che; Lu Han

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-33443-1

Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

Synchronous quantitative analysis of chiral mesostructured inorganic crystals by 3D electron diffraction tomography

Jing Ai,
Xueliang Zhang,
Te Bai,
Qing Shen,
Peter Oleynikov,
Yingying Duan,
Osamu Terasaki,
Shunai Che,
Lu Han

Affiliations

Jing Ai: School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tongji University
Xueliang Zhang: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules, State Key Laboratory of Composite Materials, Shanghai Key Laboratory for Molecular Engineering of Chiral Drugs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Te Bai: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules, State Key Laboratory of Composite Materials, Shanghai Key Laboratory for Molecular Engineering of Chiral Drugs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Qing Shen: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules, State Key Laboratory of Composite Materials, Shanghai Key Laboratory for Molecular Engineering of Chiral Drugs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Peter Oleynikov: School of Physical Science and Technology, Centre for High-resolution Electron Microscopy and Shanghai Key Laboratory of High-resolution Electron Microscopy, ShanghaiTech University
Yingying Duan: School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tongji University
Osamu Terasaki: School of Physical Science and Technology, Centre for High-resolution Electron Microscopy and Shanghai Key Laboratory of High-resolution Electron Microscopy, ShanghaiTech University
Shunai Che: School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tongji University
Lu Han: School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tongji University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33443-1
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Chiral mesostructured inorganic crystals exhibit distinctive twisting and helical hierarchical stacking. Here, the authors report a general approach for the synchronous quantitative analysis of rotation axis, torsion angle, pitch length, and arrangement modes.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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