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Chiral Textures inside 2D Achiral Domains

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posted on 2011-11-30, 00:00 authored by Eugenio Jiménez-Millan, Juan J. Giner-Casares, María T. Martín-Romero, Gerald Brezesinski, Luis Camacho
Chiral interfaces are of capital importance for biorecognition processes and nanotechnology. In this work, a mixed Langmuir monolayer was built using a surface-active dye and a phospholipid. The monolayer displayed optical activity. The driving force for the formation of the supramolecular chirality is the self-assembly of the polar headgroups of the dye. The existence of supramolecular chirality inside nonchirally-shaped domains is shown.

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