Chiral inorganic nanostructures

W Ma, L Xu, AF de Moura, X Wu, H Kuang, C Xu… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The field of chiral inorganic nanostructures is rapidly expanding. It started from the
observation of strong circular dichroism during the synthesis of individual nanoparticles …

Amphiphiles in aqueous solution: well beyond a soap bubble

A Sorrenti, O Illa, RM Ortuño - Chemical Society Reviews, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Owing to their “dual” affinity, amphiphiles self-assemble in water to form different kinds of
nanoscale multimolecular assemblies ranging from simple micelles and vesicles to highly …

Interactions of particulate matter and pulmonary surfactant: Implications for human health

F Wang, J Liu, H Zeng - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2020 - Elsevier
Particulate matter (PM), which is the primary contributor to air pollution, has become a
pervasive global health threat. When PM enters into a respiratory tract, the first body tissues …

Molecular chirality at surfaces

KH Ernst - physica status solidi (b), 2012 - Wiley Online Library
With the adsorption of larger molecules being increasingly tackled by surface scientists, the
aspect of chirality often plays a role. This paper gives a topical review of molecular chirality …

Crystalline architectures as templates of relevance to the origins of homochirality

I Weissbuch, M Lahav - Chemical Reviews, 2011 - ACS Publications
From the days of Biot1 and Pasteur, 2 when it was recognized that biopolymers are
composed from residues of a single handedness, scientists were puzzled as to the ancestry …

Self-assembled spiral nanoarchitecture and supramolecular chirality in Langmuir− Blodgett films of an achiral amphiphilic barbituric acid

X Huang, C Li, S Jiang, X Wang… - Journal of the American …, 2004 - ACS Publications
An amphiphilic barbituric acid derivative was found to form stable monolayers showing a
clear phase transition at the air/water interface. It is interesting to find that the deposited …

Supramolecular surface chirality

KH Ernst - Supramolecular chirality, 2006 - Springer
Two-dimensional supramolecular chemistry on surfaces is strongly governed by directional
forces, and expression of chirality in two dimensions is quite pronounced due to confinement …

Effect of hydrophilic and hydrophobic nanoparticles on the surface pressure response of DPPC monolayers

E Guzmán, L Liggieri, E Santini, M Ferrari… - The Journal of …, 2011 - ACS Publications
The study of the interaction between Langmuir monolayers of 1, 2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycerol-3-
phosphocholine (DPPC), as the major component of lung surfactant (LS), and nanoparticles …

Chiral recognition of L-tryptophan with beta-cyclodextrin-modified biomimetic single nanochannel

G Xie, W Tian, L Wen, K Xiao, Z Zhang, Q Liu… - Chemical …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
A stable system of enantioselectively recognising L-tryptophan based on β-cyclodextrin-
modified single nanochannel fabricated in a polyimide membrane was demonstrated, and …

Brewster angle microscopy: A preferential method for mesoscopic characterization of monolayers at the air/water interface

D Vollhardt - Current opinion in colloid & interface science, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge of the mesoscopic morphology of condensed phase domains formed
after the main phase transition in the two-phase coexistence region of Langmuir monolayers …