Volume 129, Issue 28 pp. 8303-8307
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A Carbon Dioxide Bubble-Induced Vortex Triggers Co-Assembly of Nanotubes with Controlled Chirality

Dr. Ling Zhang

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Dr. Ling Zhang

PCFM Lab and GDHPRC Lab, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275 China

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Laicheng Zhou

Laicheng Zhou

PCFM Lab and GDHPRC Lab, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275 China

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Na Xu

Na Xu

PCFM Lab and GDHPRC Lab, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275 China

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Zhenjie Ouyang

Zhenjie Ouyang

PCFM Lab and GDHPRC Lab, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275 China

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First published: 16 May 2017
Citations: 3

Abstract

It is challenging to prepare co-organized nanotube systems with controlled nanoscale chirality in an aqueous liquid flow field. Such systems are responsive to a bubbled external gas. A liquid vortex induced by bubbling carbon dioxide (CO2) gas was used to stimulate the formation of nanotubes with controlled chirality; two kinds of achiral cationic building blocks were co-assembled in aqueous solution. CO2-triggered nanotube formation occurs by formation of metastable intermediate structures (short helical ribbons and short tubules) and by transition from short tubules to long tubules in response to chirality matching self-assembly. Interestingly, the chirality sign of these assemblies can be selected for by the circulation direction of the CO2 bubble-induced vortex during the co-assembly process.

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