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  • Control of the Induced Hand...
    Kim, Ju-Yong; Lee, Jae-Jin; Park, Jun-Sung; Choi, Yong-Jun; Choi, Suk-Won

    Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 10/2021, Letnik: 26, Številka: 19
    Journal Article

    In this paper, a simple and powerful method to control the induced handedness of helical nanofilaments (HNFs) is presented. The nanofilaments are formed by achiral bent-core liquid crystal molecules employing a cholesteric liquid crystal field obtained by doping a rod-like nematogen with a chiral dopant. Homochiral helical nanofilaments are formed in the nanophase-separated helical nanofilament/cholesteric phase from a mixture with a cholesteric phase. This cholesteric phase forms at a temperature higher than the temperature at which the helical nanofilament in a bent-core molecule appears. Under such conditions, the cholesteric liquid crystal field acts as a driving force in the nucleation of HNFs, realizing a perfectly homochiral domain consisting of identical helical nanofilament handedness.