We report the homochiral Au nano-screws via the chiral induction by L-cysteine.The focus is on the emergence of tunable spiral threads,which depend on the feedback mechanism between the chiral ligand patches and the r...We report the homochiral Au nano-screws via the chiral induction by L-cysteine.The focus is on the emergence of tunable spiral threads,which depend on the feedback mechanism between the chiral ligand patches and the ridge-valley growth competition.We postulate that the merging of ridges around the nanorod surface into three-dimensional(3D)chiral threads is analogous to that of the 2D sand dune stacks,in terms of the dynamic evolution of the ridge patterns.展开更多
基金support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(91956109,21703104 and 21673117)Jiangsu Science and Technology Plan(BK20170980)+1 种基金Nanjing Tech University(39837102,39837131)Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(2022XHSJJ002).
文摘We report the homochiral Au nano-screws via the chiral induction by L-cysteine.The focus is on the emergence of tunable spiral threads,which depend on the feedback mechanism between the chiral ligand patches and the ridge-valley growth competition.We postulate that the merging of ridges around the nanorod surface into three-dimensional(3D)chiral threads is analogous to that of the 2D sand dune stacks,in terms of the dynamic evolution of the ridge patterns.