Helical heterojunctions originating from helical inversion of conducting polymer nanofibers

Chem Commun (Camb). 2012 Mar 18;48(23):2843-5. doi: 10.1039/c2cc17235f. Epub 2012 Jan 13.

Abstract

The helical sense of conducting polyaniline nanofibers was induced using chiral acid as dopant, which can be inversed through a copolymerization of aniline with N-methyl aniline. By delicately controlling the inversion driving force of steric hindrance, we successfully obtained "helical heterojunctions" composed of right- and left-handed helical structures in one helical nanofiber.