Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Design principles of chiral carbon nanodots help convey chirality from molecular to nanoscale level

  • Luka Ðorđević,
  • Francesca Arcudi,
  • Alessandro D’Urso,
  • Michele Cacioppo,
  • Norberto Micali,
  • Thomas Bürgi,
  • Roberto Purrello,
  • Maurizio Prato

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05561-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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A promising and efficient route to chiral materials involves the transfer of chirality across length scales. Here, the authors use chiral molecular precursors to synthesize chiral carbon nanodots, which in turn can template the formation of chiral supramolecular assemblies.