Inner Surface Chirality of Single-Handed Twisted Carbonaceous Tubular Nanoribbons

Chirality
Dan LiuYonggang Yang

Abstract

Single-handed twisted 4,4'-biphenylene-bridged polybissilsesquioxane tubular nanoribbons and single-layered nanoribbons were prepared by tuning the water/ethanol volume ratio in the reaction mixture at pH = 11.6 through a supramolecular templating approach. The single-layered nanoribbons were formed by shrinking tubular nanoribbons after the removal of the templates. In addition, solvent-induced handedness inversion was achieved. The handedness of the polybissilsesquioxanes could be controlled by changing the ethanol/water volume ratio in the reaction mixture. After carbonization at 900 °C for 4.0 h and removal of silica, single-handed twisted carbonaceous tubular nanoribbons and single-layered nanoribbons with micropores in the walls were obtained. X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy analyses indicated that the carbon is predominantly amorphous. The circular dichroism spectra show that the twisted tubular nanoribbons exhibit optical activity, while the twisted single-layered nanoribbons do not. The results shown here indicate that chirality is transferred from the organic self-assemblies to the inner surfaces of the 4,4'-biphenylene-bridged polybissilsesquioxane tubular nanoribbons and subsequently to those of the carbona...Continue Reading

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Jul 5, 2017·Chemical Record : an Official Publication of the Chemical Society of Japan ... [et Al.]·Yi Li, Yonggang Yang
May 10, 2017·Chemical Record : an Official Publication of the Chemical Society of Japan ... [et Al.]·Yangyang He, Yonggang Yang

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