Chiral nanomaterials with intrinsic chirality or spatial asymmetry at the nanoscale are
currently in the limelight of both fundamental research and diverse important technological …

The field of chiral inorganic nanostructures is rapidly expanding. It started from the
observation of strong circular dichroism during the synthesis of individual nanoparticles …

Liquid crystals (LCs) are omnipresent in living matter, whose chirality is an elegant and
distinct feature in certain plant tissues, the cuticles of crabs, beetles, arthropods, and …

Circularly polarized luminescent (CPL) materials have received significant attention in the
field of fundamental science recently. These materials offer substantial advancement of …

Liquid crystals play an important role in biology because the combination of order and
mobility is a basic requirement for self-organisation and structure formation in living systems …

Chirality is a fundamental property and vital to chemistry, biology, physics and materials
science. The ability to use asymmetry to operate molecular-level machines or …

Liquid crystals are finding increasing applications in a wide variety of fields including liquid-
crystal display technology, materials science, bioscience, etc., apart from acting as prototype …

Helical superstructures are widely observed in nature, in synthetic polymers, and in
supramolecular assemblies. Controlling the chirality (the handedness) of dynamic helical …

Revolutionary developments in the fabrication of nanosized particles have created
enormous expectations in the last few years for the use of such materials in areas such as …

Nanoparticle chirality has attracted much attention recently, and the application of chiral
nanoparticles to chiral technologies (see figure) is also of interest. This Minireview deals …