Fabrication of Fluorescent One-dimensional-nanocomposites through One-pot Self-assembling Polymerization on Nano-helical Silica

This paper presents a new class of one-dimensional nanostructures exhibiting remarkable fluorescent solvatochromism. This is fabricated through the self-assembling polymerization of 2,6-dihydroxyanthracene with a small crosslinker on the surface of silica helices obtained from a sol-gel reaction with tetraethoxysilane in the presence of the gemini surfactant-derived chiral assembly.