title: Chirality-driven wettability switching and mass transfer.
abstract: Enantioselective wetting: Regulating the surface wettability of materials through chiral molecules provides new insight into the design of chiral materials. By taking advantage of a reversible conformational transition, smart polymers present an ideal platform for translating weak chiral signals into macroscopic properties of materials, thus resulting in a distinctive wettability switching driven by chirality.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials, Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, 122 Luoshi Road, Wuhan 430070 (P. R. China).
authors.forename: Guangyan
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Qing
authors.forename: Taolei
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sun
mesh_terms: D000327:Adsorption; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D010316:Particle Size; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry*; D013499:Surface Properties; D017155:Wettability
chemical_list: D011108:Polymers
keywords: chirality; hydrogen bonds; materials science; polymers