Bioinspired chiral inorganic nanomaterials

NH Cho, A Guerrero-Martínez, J Ma, S Bals… - Nature Reviews …, 2023‏ - nature.com
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 …

Regulation of biological processes by intrinsically chiral engineered materials

B Ma, A Bianco - Nature Reviews Materials, 2023‏ - nature.com
Chirality has a key role in the synthesis of biomolecules and the development of life.
Although the effects of many chiral molecules or materials on biological processes have …

Enantioselective sensing by collective circular dichroism

RM Kim, JH Huh, SJ Yoo, TG Kim, C Kim, H Kim… - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
Quantitative determination and in situ monitoring of molecular chirality at extremely low
concentrations is still challenging with simple optics because of the molecular-scale …

An artificial intelligence enabled chemical synthesis robot for exploration and optimization of nanomaterials

Y Jiang, D Salley, A Sharma, G Keenan, M Mullin… - Science …, 2022‏ - science.org
We present an autonomous chemical synthesis robot for the exploration, discovery, and
optimization of nanostructures driven by real-time spectroscopic feedback, theory, and …

Imaging-based spectrometer-less optofluidic biosensors based on dielectric metasurfaces for detecting extracellular vesicles

Y Jahani, ER Arvelo, F Yesilkoy, K Koshelev… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Biosensors are indispensable tools for public, global, and personalized healthcare as they
provide tests that can be used from early disease detection and treatment monitoring to …

Micelle-directed chiral seeded growth on anisotropic gold nanocrystals

G González-Rubio, J Mosquera, V Kumar… - Science, 2020‏ - science.org
Surfactant-assisted seeded growth of metal nanoparticles (NPs) can be engineered to
produce anisotropic gold nanocrystals with high chiroptical activity through the templating …

Cu2+-Dominated Chirality Transfer from Chiral Molecules to Concave Chiral Au Nanoparticles

J Wan, L Sun, X Sun, C Liu, G Yang… - Journal of the …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Foreign ions as additives are of great significance for realizing excellent control over the
morphology of noble metal nanostructures in the state-of-the-art seed-mediated growth …

3D plasmonic gold nanopocket structure for SERS machine learning‐based microplastic detection

JY Kim, EH Koh, JY Yang, C Mun, S Lee… - Advanced Functional …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Microplastics (MPs) are present not only in the environment but also in drinking water, food,
and consumer products. These MPs being toxic, carcinogenic, endocrine disrupting, and …

Biomimetic mineralization based on self-assembling peptides

Q Li, Y Wang, G Zhang, R Su, W Qi - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Biomimetic science has attracted great interest in the fields of chemistry, biology, materials
science, and energy. Biomimetic mineralization is the process of synthesizing inorganic …

Halide-assisted differential growth of chiral nanoparticles with threefold rotational symmetry

J Zheng, C Boukouvala, GR Lewis, Y Ma… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Enriching the library of chiral plasmonic nanoparticles that can be chemically mass-
produced will greatly facilitate the applications of chiral plasmonics in areas ranging from …