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Title: | Chiral selection by interfacial shearing of self-assembled achiral molecules |
Author: | Petit Garrido, Núria Ignés i Mullol, Jordi Claret Bonet, Josep Sagués i Mestre, Francesc |
Keywords: | Molècules Química física Molecules Physical and theoretical chemistry |
Issue Date: | 30-Nov-2009 |
Publisher: | American Physical Society |
Abstract: | We report a novel phenomenon of chiral selection in self-assembled condensates of achiral amphiphiles. The handedness of chiral textures, reproducing the collective rotational component of the molecular orientation inside submillimeter circular domains, is correlated with the sign of a vortical stirring in the aqueous subphase. We propose an explanation based on the distinctive kinetics of topological defect annihilation during domain coalescence at the initial coarsening stage of a phase-separating monolayer. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.237802 |
It is part of: | Physical Review Letters, 2009, vol. 103, num. 23, p. 237802 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/139499 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.237802 |
ISSN: | 0031-9007 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Ciència dels Materials i Química Física) Articles publicats en revistes (Institut de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (IN2UB)) |
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