Twists and turns in the hierarchical self-assembly pathways of a non-amphiphilic chiral supramolecular material.

The formation of helical self-assembled fibres by a C(3) symmetric molecule incorporating three tetrathiafulvalene units is shown to be influenced dramatically by the processing conditions, leading to a variety of different chiral forms, including unprecedented croissants. This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2012