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The aim is to understand how chirality propagates through competing self-assembly pathways in supramolecular chemistry.

August 13, 2026Nature CommunicationsOpen Access

From helices to superhelices through hierarchical assembly across competing pathways

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Demonstrates how one chemical can create various structures with different properties, suggesting new pathways for material design.

The aim is to understand how chirality propagates through competing self-assembly pathways in supramolecular chemistry.
Isolated and characterized four distinct supramolecular aggregates from a chiral derivative under the same conditions.
Constructed an energy landscape using calorimetry and performed long-term kinetic studies.
Conducted cross-seeding experiments to investigate interconversions and assembly networks.
Identified four distinct supramolecular aggregates, each with unique chiroptical signatures.
Demonstrated a stable structure formed via helix-to-superhelix transition driven by secondary nucleation.
Revealed an interconnected assembly network with accelerated transformations between different dimensionality assemblies.

Hong et al. (2026) studied this question.

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