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Article Dans Une Revue Science Advances Année : 2017

Ligand-induced twisting of nanoplatelets and their self-assembly into chiral ribbons

Marta de Frutos
Patrick Davidson
Benjamin Abécassis

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The emergence of chirality is a central issue in chemistry, materials science, and biology. In nanoparticle assemblies, chirality has been shown to arise through a few different processes, but chiral organizations composed of plate-like nanoparticles, a class of material under scrutiny due to their wide applicative potential, have not yet been reported. We show that ribbons of stacked board-shaped cadmium selenide (CdSe) nanoplatelets (NPLs) twist upon the addition of oleic acid ligand, leading to chiral ribbons that reach several micrometers in length and display a well-defined pitch of~400 nm. We demonstrate that the chirality originates from surface strain caused by the ligand because isolated NPLs in dilute solution undergo a transition from a flat to a twisted shape as the ligand coverage increases. When the platelets are closely stacked within ribbons, the individual twist propagates over the whole ribbon length. These results show that a ligand-induced mechanical stress can strongly distort thin NPLs and that this stress can be expressed at a larger scale, paving the way to stress engineering in assemblies of nanocrystals. Such a structural change resulting from a simple external stimulus could have broad implications for the design of sensors and other responsive materials.
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hal-01596102 , version 1 (19-11-2020)

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Santanu Jana, Marta de Frutos, Patrick Davidson, Benjamin Abécassis. Ligand-induced twisting of nanoplatelets and their self-assembly into chiral ribbons. Science Advances , 2017, 3 (9), pp.e1701483. ⟨10.1126/sciadv.1701483⟩. ⟨hal-01596102⟩
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