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 …

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 …

Chiral objects cannot be superimposed on their mirror images. This seemingly simple
property has unifying importance for physics, astronomy, chemistry, biology, and medicine, 1 …

Inorganic nanoparticles offer a multifunctional platform for biomedical applications in drug
delivery, biosensing, bioimaging, disease diagnosis, screening, and therapies …

Chiral nanomaterials have attracted increasing attention due to their versatile optical
properties. Although circularly polarized (CP) light can serve as an inducer, it has negligible …

As chiral antennas, plasmonic nanoparticles (NPs) can enhance chiral responses of chiral
materials by forming hybrid structures and improving their own chirality preference as well …

Mirror symmetry breaking in materials is a fascinating phenomenon that has practical
implications for various optoelectronic technologies. Chiral plasmonic materials are …

Organic chiral nanofilaments are part of an important class of nanoscale chiral materials that
has recently been receiving significant attention largely due to their potential use in …

Nematic liquid crystals of achiral molecules or racemic mixtures of chiral ones form flat films
when suspended in submillimeter size grids and submerged under water. Recently, it has …

Three-dimensional (3D) scaffolds with chemical diversity are significant to direct cell
adhesion onto targeted surfaces, which provides solutions to further control over cell fates …