Supramolecular Chiral 2D Materials and Emerging Functions

Bowen Shen, Yongju Kim, Myongsoo Lee

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    Abstract

    Chiral materials are widely applied in various fields such as enantiomeric separation, asymmetric catalysis, and chiroptical effects, providing stereospecific conditions and environments. Supramolecular concepts to create the chiral materials can provide an insight for emerging chiro-optical properties due to their well-defined scaffolds and the precise functionalization of the surfaces or skeletons. Among the various supramolecular chiral structures, 2D chiral sheet structures are particularly interesting materials because of their extremely high surface area coupled with many unique chemical and physical properties, thereby offering potential for the next generation of functional materials for optically active systems and optoelectronic devices. Nevertheless, relatively limited examples for 2D chiral materials exhibiting specific functionality have been reported because incorporation of molecular chirality into 2D architectures is difficult at the present stage. Here, a brief overview of the recent advances is provided on the construction of chiral supramolecular 2D materials and their functions. The design principles toward 2D chirality and their potential applications are also discussed.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number1905669
    JournalAdvanced Materials
    Volume32
    Issue number41
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2020 Oct 1

    Bibliographical note

    Funding Information:
    This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21634005 and 51473062), the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2019R1C1C1008526 and NRF-2019R1A4A1027627), and the KU-KIST Research Fund.

    Publisher Copyright:
    © 2020 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim

    Keywords

    • 2D chiral materials
    • 2D porous materials
    • supramolecular materials

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • General Materials Science
    • Mechanics of Materials
    • Mechanical Engineering

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