Fibrillar networks, chirality

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Chirality Effects in Self-assembled Fibrillar Networks... 

Chirality seems to be intimately associated with the growth and stabdity of self-assembled fibrillar networks of small organic molecules and with the most common macroscopic property of these networks, which is the ther-moreversible gelation of the solvent. The importance of chirality is apparent both at the molecular scale and at the scale of the self-assembled fibers, which typically ranges from nanometers to micrometers. This chapter attempts to review literature data about both these aspects. 

Selective chiral recognition by self-assembled fibrillar networks paves the way to important applications of gels. A first type of apphcation is chiral discrimination/separation enantioselective elution phenomena using a chiral organic gel as the stationary phase [162]. Chiral stationary phases are normally produced upon grafting chiral groups onto polymer beads. Alter-... 

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