Recent advances in ultrathin chiral metasurfaces by twisted stacking

Z Han, F Wang, J Sun, X Wang, Z Tang - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Artificial chiral nanostructures have been subjected to extensive research for their unique
chiroptical activities. Planarized chiral films of ultrathin thicknesses are in particular demand …

Chiral plasmonic nanostructures: recent advances in their synthesis and applications

W Wu, M Pauly - Materials Advances, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Chirality describes the geometric property of an object that is not superimposable on its
mirror image and has been a pivotal concept in chemistry and biology since the 19th …

Nano-achiral complex composites for extreme polarization optics

J Lu, W Wu, FM Colombari, A Jawaid, B Seymour… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Composites from 2D nanomaterials show uniquely high electrical, thermal and mechanical
properties,. Pairing their robustness with polarization rotation is needed for hyperspectral …

Left and Right‐Handed Light Reflection and Emission in Ultrathin Cellulose Nanocrystals Films with Printed Helicity

D Bukharina, L Southard, B Dimitrov… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Natural polymers, particularly plant‐derived nanocelluloses, self‐organize into hierarchical
structures, enabling mechanical robustness, bright iridescence, emission, and polarized …

Chirality supramolecular systems: Helical assemblies, structure designs, and functions

S Jia, T Tao, Y **e, L Yu, X Kang, Y Zhang, W Tang… - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Chirality, as one of the most striking characteristics, exists at various scales in nature.
Originating from the interactions of host and guest molecules, supramolecular chirality …

Tunable and responsive photonic bio‐inspired materials and their applications

J Jeon, D Bukharina, M Kim, S Kang, J Kim… - Responsive …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Bio‐enabled and bio‐mimetic nanomaterials represent functional materials, which use bio‐
derived materials and synthetic components to bring the better of two, natural and synthetic …

Continuous spectral and coupling-strength encoding with dual-gradient metasurfaces

A Aigner, T Weber, A Wester, SA Maier, A Tittl - Nature Nanotechnology, 2024 - nature.com
To control and enhance light–matter interactions at the nanoscale, two parameters are
central: the spectral overlap between an optical cavity mode and the material's spectral …

Chiral metal nanostructures: synthesis, properties and applications

SU Abbas, JJ Li, X Liu, A Siddique, YX Shi, M Hou… - Rare Metals, 2023 - Springer
Chirality, the property that an object cannot coincide with its mirror image arising from lack of
mirror symmetry, is ubiquitous in nature at various length scales. The physical and chemical …

Engineering chirality at wafer scale with ordered carbon nanotube architectures

J Doumani, M Lou, O Dewey, N Hong, J Fan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Creating artificial matter with controllable chirality in a simple and scalable manner brings
new opportunities to diverse areas. Here we show two such methods based on controlled …

Controlling the broadband enhanced light chirality with L-shaped dielectric metamaterials

U Kilic, M Hilfiker, S Wimer, A Ruder, E Schubert… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The inherently weak chiroptical responses of natural materials limit their usage for
controlling and enhancing chiral light-matter interactions. Recently, several nanostructures …