Changing Liquid Crystal Helical Pitch with a Reversible Rotaxane Switch

Abstract: The transmission of chiral information between the molecular, meso and microscopic scales is a facet of biology that remains challenging to understand mechanistically and to mimic with artificial systems. Here we demonstrate that the dynamic change in the expression of the chirality of a rotaxane can be transduced into a change in pitch of a soft matter system. Shuttling the position of the macrocycle from far‐away‐from to close‐to a point‐chiral center on the rotaxane axle changes the expression of the chiral information that is transmitted across length scales; from nanometer scale constitutional chirality that affects the conformation of the macrocycle, to the centimeter scale chirality of the liquid crystal phase, significantly changing the pitch length of the chiral nematic structure.

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Changing Liquid Crystal Helical Pitch with a Reversible Rotaxane Switch ; day:26 ; month:03 ; year:2024 ; extent:6
Angewandte Chemie ; (26.03.2024) (gesamt 6)

Creator
Chen, Sujun
Katsonis, Nathalie
Leigh, David A.
Patanapongpibul, Manee
Ryabchun, Alexander
Zhang, Liang

DOI
10.1002/ange.202401291
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2024032613424944287889
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  • Chen, Sujun
  • Katsonis, Nathalie
  • Leigh, David A.
  • Patanapongpibul, Manee
  • Ryabchun, Alexander
  • Zhang, Liang

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