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ArticleNature communications2020

Self-assembled Möbius strips with controlled helicity.

Guanghui Ouyang, Lukang Ji, Yuqian Jiang, Frank Würthner, Minghua Liu

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Article in Nature communications, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 73 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Guanghui OuyangBeijing National Laboratory of Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Colloid, Interface and Thermodynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9605-2723
Lukang JiBeijing National Laboratory of Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Colloid, Interface and Thermodynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
Yuqian JiangKey Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication, Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, 100190, China.
Frank WürthnerInstitut für Organische Chemie and Center for Nanosystems Chemistry, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, Würzburg, 97074, Germany. wuerthner@uni-wuerzburg.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7245-0471
Minghua LiuBeijing National Laboratory of Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Colloid, Interface and Thermodynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China. liumh@iccas.ac.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6603-1251
Chinese Academy of Sciences · CNUniversity of Würzburg · DE

Funding

Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) QYZDJSSW-SLH044, 2019036National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 21890734, 21890730, 21861132002, 21971247
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Different from molecular level topology, the development of supramolecular topology has been limited due to a lack of reliable synthetic methods. Here we describe a supramolecular strategy of accessing Möbius strip, a fascinating topological object featured with only a single edge and single side. Through bending and cyclization of twisted nanofibers self-assembled from chiral glutamate amphiphiles, supramolecular nano-toroids with various twist numbers were obtained. Electron microscopic techniques could clearly identify the formation of Möbius strips when twist numbers on the toroidal fibers are odd ones. Spectroscopic and morphological analysis indicates that the helicity of the Möbius strips and nano-toroids stems from the molecular chirality of glutamate molecules. Therefore, M- and P-helical Möbius strips could be formed from L- and D-amphiphiles, respectively. Our experimental results and theoretical simulations may advance the prospect of creating chiral topologically complex structures via supramolecular approach.

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