Chirality-Discriminated Conductivity of Metal-Amino Acid Biocoordination Polymer Nanowires
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Wu, Yijin
Deng, Ke
He, Meng
He, Liangcan
Cao, Jing
Zhang, Xugang
Liu, Yaling
Li, Shunxing
Tang, Zhiyong
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Biocoordination polymer (BCP) nanowires are successfully constructed through self-assembly of chiral cysteine amino acids and Cd cations in solution. The varied chirality of cysteine is explored to demonstrate the difference of BCP nanowires in both morphology and structure. More interestingly and surprisingly, the electrical property measurement reveals that, although all Cd(II)/cysteine BCP nanowires behave as semiconductors, the conductivity of the Cd(II)/dl-cysteine nanowires is 4 times higher than that of the Cd(II)/l-cysteine or Cd(II)/d-cysteine ones. The origin of such chirality-discriminated characteristics registered in BCP nanowires is further elucidated by theoretical calculation. These findings demonstrate that the morphology, structure, and property of BCP nanostructures could be tuned by the chirality of the bridging ligands, which will shed light on the comprehension of chirality transcription as well as construction of chirality-regulated functional materials.
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ACS Nano
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10
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9
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Nanotechnology not elsewhere classified