Maeda Katsuhiro, Matsushita Yasuaki, Ezaka Muneyoshi, Yashima Eiji
Department of Molecular Design and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8603, Japan.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2005 Sep 7(33):4152-4. doi: 10.1039/b507863f. Epub 2005 Jul 26.
The macromolecular helicity of charged poly(phenylacetylene)s induced by small chiral guests in water can be retained by the alternative deposition of achiral polyelectrolytes with opposite charges, resulting in optically active multilayer thin films with a macromolecular helicity memory.