title: Compression induced chiral symmetry breaking of monolayers comprised of banana-shaped achiral molecules at an air-water interface: Williams-Bragg approach.
abstract: Chirality of monolayers comprised of banana-shaped achiral molecules at an air-water interface was investigated theoretically, and a forming mechanism of chiral structure as an assembly of achiral molecules was argued. A model of such monolayers was constructed taking into account the short-range repulsive interaction between constituent banana-shaped achiral molecules, and the free energy density functional of the model was derived as a generalization of Williams-Bragg approach. It was predicted that chiral symmetry breaking occurs by monolayer compression, where two-dimensional characteristics of monolayers at an interface plays an important role in the formation of chiral structure by banana-shaped achiral molecules.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physical Electronics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 S3-33 O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan.
authors.forename: Tetsuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: Takaaki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Manaka
authors.forename: Dai
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Taguchi
authors.forename: Mitsumasa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Iwamoto