Materials for chiral light control

J Crassous, MJ Fuchter, DE Freedman… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Solution-processable semiconductors based on small molecules, polymers or halide
perovskites combine sustainable manufacturing with exceptional optoelectronic properties …

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 …

Enantiomer-dependent immunological response to chiral nanoparticles

L Xu, X Wang, W Wang, M Sun, WJ Choi, JY Kim… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
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 …

Photonically active bowtie nanoassemblies with chirality continuum

P Kumar, T Vo, M Cha, A Visheratina, JY Kim, W Xu… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Chirality is a geometrical property described by continuous mathematical functions,,,–.
However, in chemical disciplines, chirality is often treated as a binary left or right …

Steering electron–hole migration pathways using oxygen vacancies in tungsten oxides to enhance their photocatalytic oxygen evolution performance

Z Wei, W Wang, W Li, X Bai, J Zhao… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The overall water splitting efficiency is mainly restricted by the slow kinetics of oxygen
evolution. Therefore, it is essential to develop active oxygen evolution catalysts. In this …

Supramolecular chiroptical switches

L Zhang, HX Wang, S Li, M Liu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Chiroptical switches, whose chiral optical signals such as optical rotatory dispersion (ORD),
circular dichroism (CD) and circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) are reversibly …

Chiral electrocatalysts eclipse water splitting metrics through spin control

A Vadakkayil, C Clever, KN Kunzler, S Tan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Continual progress in technologies that rely on water splitting are often hampered by the
slow kinetics associated with the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Here, we show that the …

Enhanced optical asymmetry in supramolecular chiroplasmonic assemblies with long-range order

J Lu, Y Xue, K Bernardino, NN Zhang, WR Gomes… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Chiral assemblies of plasmonic nanoparticles are known for strong circular dichroism but not
for high optical asymmetry, which is limited by the unfavorable combination of electrical and …

New perspectives to trigger and modulate circularly polarized luminescence of complex and aggregated systems: energy transfer, photon upconversion, charge …

T Zhao, J Han, P Duan, M Liu - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2020 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Chiral functional materials with circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) have
risen rapidly in recent years because of their fascinating characteristics and potential …

Biomimetic chiral hydrogen-bonded organic-inorganic frameworks

J Guo, Y Duan, Y Jia, Z Zhao, X Gao, P Liu, F Li… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Assembly ubiquitously occurs in nature and gives birth to numerous functional biomaterials
and sophisticated organisms. In this work, chiral hydrogen-bonded organic-inorganic …