Chemically fueled chiral hydrogels

Programmable four-state chirality

Using chemical fuels to regulate assembly pathways enables reversible switching between chiral hydrogels, providing a new material for multistate chiroptical switches.

Li, Jingjing · Cui, Yihan · Yi-Lin, Lu · Zhang, Yunfei · Zhang, Kaihuang · Gu, Chaonan · Wang, Kaifang · Liu, Chunsen

Nature Communications 2023

Advantages

Sequential programmable switching between four different chiral hydrogels

Chiroptical switch recyclable multiple times