Kanazawa University research: Helical structures visualized
KANAZAWA, Japan, Dec. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers at Kanazawa University report in ChemComm the visualization of polymers with helical structures.
- KANAZAWA, Japan, Dec. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers at Kanazawa University report in ChemComm the visualization of polymers with helical structures.
- Visualizing the helical structures in complex organic molecules is important for understanding their chiral ('handedness'-related) properties, and for the design of materials exploiting these.
- Now, Katsuhiro Maeda and colleagues from Kanazawa University have succeeded in visualizing the helical structure of an important set of polymers with chiral constituents.
- The researchers studied the helical structures in PDPAs bearing chiral amide pendants by means of high-resolution atomic-force microscopy (AFM).