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Chirality‐Driven Wettability Switching and Mass Transfer
Author(s) -
Qing Guangyan,
Sun Taolei
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201306660
Subject(s) - wetting , chirality (physics) , enantioselective synthesis , smart polymer , nanotechnology , materials science , mass transfer , polymer , surface (topology) , chemical physics , wetting transition , ideal (ethics) , chemistry , composite material , physics , organic chemistry , mathematics , catalysis , geometry , chromatography , chiral symmetry breaking , quantum mechanics , nambu–jona lasinio model , quark , philosophy , epistemology
Enantioselective wetting: Regulating the surface wettability of materials through chiral molecules provides new insight into the design of chiral materials. By taking advantage of a reversible conformational transition, smart polymers present an ideal platform for translating weak chiral signals into macroscopic properties of materials, thus resulting in a distinctive wettability switching driven by chirality (see scheme).