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 …

Chiral carbon dots: synthesis, optical properties, and emerging applications

A Döring, E Ushakova, AL Rogach - Light: Science & Applications, 2022 - nature.com
Carbon dots are luminescent carbonaceous nanoparticles that can be endowed with chiral
properties, making them particularly interesting for biomedical applications due to their low …

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 …

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 …

Helical polymers for dissymmetric circularly polarized light imaging

I Song, J Ahn, H Ahn, SH Lee, J Mei, NA Kotov, JH Oh - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Control of the spin angular momentum (SAM) carried in a photon provides a technologically
attractive element for next-generation quantum networks and spintronics,,,–. However, the …

Recent advances of seed‐mediated growth of metal nanoparticles: from growth to applications

MQ He, Y Ai, W Hu, L Guan, M Ding… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Unprecedented advances in metal nanoparticle synthesis have paved the way for broad
applications in sensing, imaging, catalysis, diagnosis, and therapy by tuning the optical …

Multidimensional nanoscopic chiroptics

Y Chen, W Du, Q Zhang, O Ávalos-Ovando… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Nanoscopic chiroptics studies the spin-dependent asymmetric light–matter interactions at
the nanoscale, where the asymmetry can stem from the intrinsic properties of materials …

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 …

Spin angular momentum–encoded single-photon emitters in a chiral nanoparticle–coupled WSe2 monolayer

SJ Lee, JP So, RM Kim, KH Kim, HH Rha, G Na… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Spin angular momentum (SAM)–encoded single-photon emitters, also known as circularly
polarized single photons, are basic building blocks for the advancement of chiral quantum …

[HTML][HTML] Chirality in the solid state: Chiral crystal structures in chiral and achiral space groups

GH Fecher, J Kübler, C Felser - Materials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Chirality depends on particular symmetries. For crystal structures it describes the absence of
mirror planes and inversion centers, and in addition to translations, only rotations are …