Chiral emergence in multistep hierarchical assembly of achiral conjugated polymers

Chiral assembly of achiral building blocks can engender properties without resorting to complex stereochemistry. Here, the authors reveal chiral emergence from achiral semiconducting polymers which pave the way to chiral (opto)electronics.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kyung Sun Park, Zhengyuan Xue, Bijal B. Patel, Hyosung An, Justin J. Kwok, Prapti Kafle, Qian Chen, Diwakar Shukla, Ying Diao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30420-6