Search Results - "Querciagrossa, Lara"
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Chirality amplification by desymmetrization of chiral ligand-capped nanoparticles to nanorods quantified in soft condensed matter
Published in Nature communications (25-09-2018)“…Induction, transmission, and manipulation of chirality in molecular systems are well known, widely applied concepts. However, our understanding of how…”
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Highly Sensitive, Tunable Chirality Amplification through Space Visualized for Gold Nanorods Capped with Axially Chiral Binaphthyl Derivatives
Published in ACS nano (24-09-2019)“…The creation and transmission of chirality in molecular systems is a well-known, widely applied notion. Our understanding of how the chirality of nanomaterials…”
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Simulating the Lyotropic Phase Behavior of a Partially Self-Complementary DNA Tetramer
Published in Biomacromolecules (08-07-2024)“…DNA oligomers in solution have been found to develop liquid crystal phases via a hierarchical process that involves Watson–Crick base pairing, supramolecular…”
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On the Effects of Different trans and cis Populations in Azobenzene Liquid Crystal Elastomers: A Monte Carlo Investigation
Published in ACS applied polymer materials (11-08-2023)“…We investigate main-chain liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) formed by photoresponsive azobenzene units with different populations of trans and cis conformers…”
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Chiral Gay-Berne model for molecular dynamics computer simulations
Published in Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals (03-05-2019)“…We have extended the chiral Gay-Berne (GB) pair potential of Memmer and co-workers [Liq. Cryst. (15), 345 (1993)] to the general case of biaxial ellipsoids,…”
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The significance of nanoparticle shape in chirality transfer to a surrounding nematic liquid crystal reporter medium
Published in Materials advances (19-04-2022)“…Defined based on geometric concepts, the origin of biological homochirality including the single handedness of key building blocks, D-sugars and L-amino acids,…”
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Effects of shape and solute-solvent compatibility on the efficacy of chirality transfer: Nanoshapes in nematics
Published in Science advances (28-01-2022)“…Chirality, as a concept, is well understood at most length scales. However, quantitative models predicting the efficacy of the transmission of chirality across…”
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