New paper just out in @jacs.acspublications.org! (link at the end) This is a very special one for the group, and for me personally. It deserves a bit of a long 🧵
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This work shows how chemical fuels can actively regulate supramolecular chirality in aqueous media, opening new directions for non-equilibrium self-assembly.
Outstanding teamwork with Triza Pal, @alexblokhuis.bsky.social, Luis Calahorra and @hermanslab.bsky.social at @imdeanano.bsky.social
We observed:
âś… Fuel-driven Majority Rules amplification of asymmetry
âś… A surprising double helical inversion in Sergeants-and-Soldiers experiments
âś… A phase model revealing three distinct composition regimes
The result? A transient disassembly–reassembly process that amplifies asymmetry in ways that don’t exist in the kinetically trapped system!
What happens when supramolecular chirality is pushed far from equilibrium — in water?
In our latest study, we chemically “fuel” supramolecular polymers based on PDI derivatives using a redox cycle. Check the preprint in ChemRXiv chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....