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Circularly Polarized Luminescence from Gelator Molecules: From Isolated Molecules to Assemblies

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Circularly Polarized Luminescence of Isolated Small Organic Molecules

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Currently, molecular gels have become one kind of the fascinating candidates for fabricating chiroptical materials with circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) properties, due to the tunable and modifiable structure, simple yet facile synthesis, controlled and reversible assembly, and so on. Since self-assembly approach has been regarded as an efficient way for amplifying the chirality, supramolecular gelation provides a remarkable method for fabricating CPL materials with high dissymmetry factor (g lum). Various gel systems, including chiral-, achiral-, organic-inorganic hybrid systems can be endowed with CPL activities through supramolecular gelatinization, possessing excellent luminescence circular polarization. This chapter summarizes and reviews the present status and progress of supramolecular gel systems with CPL activity.

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  1. CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, CAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), Beijing, P. R. China

    Tonghan Zhao, Pengfei Duan & Minghua Liu

  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

    Tonghan Zhao, Pengfei Duan & Minghua Liu

  3. Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Science, CAS Key Laboratory of Colloid, Interface and Chemical Thermodynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

    Minghua Liu

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Zhao, T., Duan, P., Liu, M. (2020). Circularly Polarized Luminescence from Gelator Molecules: From Isolated Molecules to Assemblies. In: Mori, T. (eds) Circularly Polarized Luminescence of Isolated Small Organic Molecules. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2309-0_11

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