Networks with Controlled Chirality Via Self-assembly of Chiral Triblock Terpolymers

Overview

Journal Sci Adv

Specialties Biology
Science

Date 2020 Oct 15

PMID 33055164

Citations 14

Authors

Hsiao-Fang Wang

Po-Ting Chiu

Chih-Ying Yang

Zhi-Hong Xie

Yu-Chueh Hung

Jing-Yu Lee

Jing-Cherng Tsai

Ishan Prasad

Hiroshi Jinnai

Edwin L Thomas

Rong-Ming Ho

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Abstract

Nanonetwork-structured materials can be found in nature and synthetic materials. A double gyroid (DG) with a pair of chiral networks but opposite chirality can be formed from the self-assembly of diblock copolymers. For triblock terpolymers, an alternating gyroid (G) with two chiral networks from distinct end blocks can be formed; however, the network chirality could be positive or negative arbitrarily, giving an achiral phase. Here, by taking advantage of chirality transfer at different length scales, G with controlled chirality can be achieved through the self-assembly of a chiral triblock terpolymer. With the homochiral evolution from monomer to multichain domain morphology through self-assembly, the triblock terpolymer composed of a chiral end block with a single-handed helical polymer chain gives the chiral network from the chiral end block having a particular handed network. Our real-space analyses reveal the preferred chiral sense of the network in the G, leading to a chiral phase.

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