Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Emergence of chirality and structural complexity in single crystals at the molecular and morphological levels

  • Maria Chiara di Gregorio,
  • Linda J. W. Shimon,
  • Vlad Brumfeld,
  • Lothar Houben,
  • Michal Lahav,
  • Milko E. van der Boom

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13925-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Single crystallinity combined with multidomain morphology is counterintuitive. Here, the authors achieve such a phenomenon in a metal-organic framework that also displays chirality at both the molecular and morphological levels.