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Emergence of chirality and structural complexity in single crystals at the molecular and morphological levels
Naturally occurring single crystals having a multidomain morphology are a counterintuitive phenonomon: the macroscopic appearance is expected to follow the symmetry of the unit cell. Growing such crystals in the lab is a great challenge, especially from organic molecules. We achieve here uniform met...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6971082/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31959750 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13925-5 |
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author | di Gregorio, Maria Chiara Shimon, Linda J. W. Brumfeld, Vlad Houben, Lothar Lahav, Michal van der Boom, Milko E. |
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description | Naturally occurring single crystals having a multidomain morphology are a counterintuitive phenonomon: the macroscopic appearance is expected to follow the symmetry of the unit cell. Growing such crystals in the lab is a great challenge, especially from organic molecules. We achieve here uniform metallo-organic crystals that exhibit single crystallinity with apparently distinct domains and chirality. The chirality is present at both the molecular and macroscopic levels, although only achiral elements are used. “Yo-yo”-like structures having opposite helical handedness evolve from initially formed seemingly achiral cylinders. This non-polyhedral morphology coexists with a continuous coordination network forming homochiral channels. This work sheds light on the enigmatic aspects of fascinating crystallization processes occurring in biological mineralization. Our findings open up opportunities to generate new porous and hierarchical chiral materials. |
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spelling | pubmed-69710822020-01-22 Emergence of chirality and structural complexity in single crystals at the molecular and morphological levels di Gregorio, Maria Chiara Shimon, Linda J. W. Brumfeld, Vlad Houben, Lothar Lahav, Michal van der Boom, Milko E. Nat Commun Article Naturally occurring single crystals having a multidomain morphology are a counterintuitive phenonomon: the macroscopic appearance is expected to follow the symmetry of the unit cell. Growing such crystals in the lab is a great challenge, especially from organic molecules. We achieve here uniform metallo-organic crystals that exhibit single crystallinity with apparently distinct domains and chirality. The chirality is present at both the molecular and macroscopic levels, although only achiral elements are used. “Yo-yo”-like structures having opposite helical handedness evolve from initially formed seemingly achiral cylinders. This non-polyhedral morphology coexists with a continuous coordination network forming homochiral channels. This work sheds light on the enigmatic aspects of fascinating crystallization processes occurring in biological mineralization. Our findings open up opportunities to generate new porous and hierarchical chiral materials. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-01-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6971082/ /pubmed/31959750 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13925-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article di Gregorio, Maria Chiara Shimon, Linda J. W. Brumfeld, Vlad Houben, Lothar Lahav, Michal van der Boom, Milko E. Emergence of chirality and structural complexity in single crystals at the molecular and morphological levels |
title | Emergence of chirality and structural complexity in single crystals at the molecular and morphological levels |
title_full | Emergence of chirality and structural complexity in single crystals at the molecular and morphological levels |
title_fullStr | Emergence of chirality and structural complexity in single crystals at the molecular and morphological levels |
title_full_unstemmed | Emergence of chirality and structural complexity in single crystals at the molecular and morphological levels |
title_short | Emergence of chirality and structural complexity in single crystals at the molecular and morphological levels |
title_sort | emergence of chirality and structural complexity in single crystals at the molecular and morphological levels |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6971082/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31959750 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13925-5 |
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