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Switchable Wettability: Chirality‐Triggered Wettability Switching on a Smart Polymer Surface (Adv. Mater. 14/2011)
Author(s) -
Qing Guangyan,
Sun Taolei
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201190050
Subject(s) - wetting , chirality (physics) , materials science , polymer , smart polymer , nanotechnology , surface modification , surface (topology) , hydrogen bond , smart material , chemical engineering , composite material , molecule , organic chemistry , chemistry , chiral symmetry breaking , physics , geometry , mathematics , quantum mechanics , nambu–jona lasinio model , engineering , quark
Chirality‐triggered wettability switching is an important challenge for responsive surfaces and a good example of mimicking nature. Through hydrogen bonding interactions among chiral recognition units, mediating units, and functional switching units, smart polymer films can reversibly change their surface properties, including wettability and morphology, according to the chirality of biomolecules in solution, as reported by Taolei Sun and Guangyan Qing on p. 1615 .