Hierarchically tunable helical assembly of achiral porphyrin-incorporated alkoxysilane.

Sun, Xuemei; Qiu, Longbin; Cai, Zhenbo; Meng, Zhenyu; Chen, Tao; Lu, Yunfeng; Peng, Huisheng · Adv Mater · 2012

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

A general assembly approach is developed to construct hierarchically tunable helical superstructures from an achiral porphyrin-incorporated alkoxysilane. The resulting superstructures can be controlled from film, rice, spindle, ribbon, to fiber in morphology and from nonhelical to helical in structure at a multiscale with excellent optoelectronic, electrical, and thermal properties.

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