Spiral self-assembly of lamellar micelles into multi-shelled hollow nanospheres with unique chiral architecture.

ABSTRACT: Functional carbon nanospheres are exceptionally useful, yet controllable synthesis of them with well-defined porosity and complex multi-shelled nanostructure remains challenging. Here, we report a lamellar micelle spiral self-assembly strategy to synthesize multi-shelled mesoporous carbon nanospheres with unique chirality. This synthesis features the introduction of shearing flow to drive the spiral self-assembly, which is different from conventional chiral templating methods. Furthermore, a continuous adjustment in the amphipathicity of surfactants can cause the packing parameter changes, namely, micellar structure transformations, resulting in diverse pore structures from single-porous, to radial orientated, to flower-like, and to multi-shelled configurations. The self-supported spiral a

SUBMITTER: Peng L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8565844 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature