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CHEMICAL SCIENCE
Volume 13, Issue 3, Pages 633-656Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d1sc03561d
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21890734, 21890730]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences [QYZDJSSW-SLH044]
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This article discusses the importance of using asymmetry to manipulate molecular-level devices and hierarchical functional materials, focusing on how chirality can be utilized to design and evolve highly ordered and complex nanostructures through self-assembly, as well as the future prospects of chiral nanostructures.
One basic principle regulating self-assembly is associated with the asymmetry of constituent building blocks or packing models. Using asymmetry to manipulate molecular-level devices and hierarchical functional materials is a promising topic in materials sciences and supramolecular chemistry. Here, exemplified by recent major achievements in chiral hierarchical self-assembly, we show how chirality may be utilized in the design, construction and evolution of highly ordered and complex chiral nanostructures. We focus on how unique functions can be developed by the exploitation of chiral nanostructures instead of single basic units. Our perspective on the future prospects of chiral nanostructures via the hierarchical self-assembly strategy is also discussed.
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