Gold nanorods (NRs), pseudo-one-dimensional rod-shaped nanoparticles (NPs), have
become one of the burgeoning materials in the recent years due to their anisotropic shape …

The research in circularly polarized luminescence has attracted wide interest in recent
years. Efforts on one side are directed toward the development of chiral materials with both …

Chirality is a unifying structural metric of biological and abiological forms of matter. Over the
past decade, considerable clarity has been achieved in understanding the chemistry and …

Controlled assembly of inorganic nanoparticles with different compositions, sizes and
shapes into higher-order structures of collective functionalities is a central pursued objective …

Quantitative determination and in situ monitoring of molecular chirality at extremely low
concentrations is still challenging with simple optics because of the molecular-scale …

Chiral nanophotonic materials are promising candidates for biosensing applications
because they focus light into nanometer dimensions, increasing their sensitivity to the …

From small molecules to entire organisms, evolution has refined biological structures at the
nanoscale, microscale and macroscale to be chiral—that is, mirror dissymmetric. Chirality …

The discovery of the enhancement of Raman scattering by molecules adsorbed on
nanostructured metal surfaces is a landmark in the history of spectroscopic and analytical …

Plasmonic nanostructures possessing unique and versatile optoelectronic properties have
been vastly investigated over the past decade. However, the full potential of plasmonic …

Chiral materials are of particular interest and have a wide range of potential applications in
life science, material science, spintronic, and optoelectronic devices. Two-dimensional (2D) …