Minghua Liu

Structural Water‐Enabled Helicity Emergence From an Asymmetric Achiral Molecule

ABSTRACT Helical supramolecular architectures are ubiquitous in nature yet remain challenging to construct from asymmetric achiral molecules. Here, we demonstrate that structural water acts as a symmetry‐breaking and frustration‐generating element in artificial self‐assembly. Usi...

In situ Second-HarmonicGeneration Probing of Magnetic-Field-InducedChiral Stacking in a Radical-Doped Liquid Crystal Monolayer

Abstract Functional open-shell π-radicals offer attractive optical and magnetic tunability but suffer from poor ambient stability, limiting their deployment in condensed-phase architectures. Here we circumvent this limitation by embedding the photolabile radical precursor HTTM-PD...