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 …

Plasmonic gold nanoparticles have been used increasingly in solid-state systems because
of their applicability in fabricating novel sensors, heterogeneous catalysts, metamaterials …

Controlled assembly of inorganic nanoparticles with different compositions, sizes and
shapes into higher-order structures of collective functionalities is a central pursued objective …

Optoelectronic effects differentiating absorption of right and left circularly polarized photons
in thin films of chiral materials are typically prohibitively small for their direct photocurrent …

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

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 …

Nanoscopic chiroptics studies the spin-dependent asymmetric light–matter interactions at
the nanoscale, where the asymmetry can stem from the intrinsic properties of materials …

A robust and reproducible methodology to prepare stable inorganic nanoparticles with chiral
morphology may hold the key to the practical utilization of these materials. An optimized …

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 …

Colloidal assembly into chiral superstructures is usually accomplished with templating or
lithographic patterning methods that are only applicable to materials with specific …