Ladderization: A Powerful Strategy for Controlling Supramolecular Helical Ordering, Amplifying Asymmetry, and Emerging and Enhancing Circularly Polarized Luminescence
Tomoyuki Ikai, Koki Nishino, Nichito Kawabata, Kosuke Oki, Mitsuo Hara, Yukikazu Takeoka, Eiji Yashima · 2026
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Description
Tomoyuki Ikai and colleagues built ladder-shaped polymers in 2026 whose stiff, flat frames twist into ordered spirals. Unlike their loose linear forerunners, which gave almost no chiral light signal, the new chains lined up in a solvent mix and in films. There they gave both circular dichroism and circularly polarized light.
Breathing solvent vapor over the films boosted the polarized glow well past a dissymmetry mark of 0.1, and the effect held even when three quarters of the film was a non-chiral twin. Readers interested in light-based devices get a clear recipe for strong, tunable polarized emission from mixed films.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Tomoyuki Ikai, Koki Nishino, Nichito Kawabata, Kosuke Oki, Mitsuo Hara, Yukikazu Takeoka, Eiji Yashima |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |