Chiral Casimir forces: Repulsive, enhanced, tunable

QD Jiang, F Wilczek - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Both theoretical interest and practical significance attach to the sign and strength of Casimir
forces. A famous, discouraging no-go theorem states that “the Casimir force between two …

Giant faraday rotation in mesogenic organic molecules

S Vandendriessche, S Van Cleuvenbergen… - Chemistry of …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Faraday rotation, the rotation of the polarization of light due to a magnetic field in the
direction of propagation of the light, is used in applications ranging from quantum memory to …

Sensitivity enhancement of magneto-optical Faraday effect immunoassay method based on biofunctionalized γ-Fe2O3@ Au core-shell magneto-plasmonic …

KL Chen, PH Tsai, CW Lin, JM Chen, YJ Lin… - … , Biology and Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, we conducted a proof-of-concept experiment based on biofunctionalized
magneto-plasmonic nanoparticles (MPNs) and magneto-optical Faraday effect for in vitro …

Morphology and magnetic structure of the ferritin core during iron loading and release by magnetooptical and NMR methods

M Koralewski, L Balejčíková, Z Mitróová… - … applied materials & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Ferritins are proteins, which serve as a storage and transportation capsule for iron inside
living organisms. Continuously charging the proteins with iron and releasing it from the …

Unidirectional Maxwellian spin waves

T Van Mechelen, Z Jacob - Nanophotonics, 2019 - degruyter.com
In this article, we develop a unified perspective of unidirectional topological edge waves in
nonreciprocal media. We focus on the inherent role of photonic spin in nonreciprocal …

Large Faraday rotation in pyrolysis synthesized carbon dots

Z Zhang, I Savukov, C Hilty - Carbon, 2025 - Elsevier
Pyrolysis of citric acid produced carbon dots on the 10 nm size scale, tunable by synthesis
time. Magneto-optical spectroscopy revealed a size-dependent Faraday rotation. For …

Synthesis and characterization of holmium-doped iron oxide nanoparticles

M Bloemen, S Vandendriessche, V Goovaerts… - Materials, 2014 - mdpi.com
Rare earth atoms exhibit several interesting properties, for example, large magnetic
moments and luminescence. Introducing these atoms into a different matrix can lead to a …

All-optical measurements of the Verdet constant in achiral and chiral liquids: Toward all-optical magnetic spectroscopies

V Rodriguez, D Verreault, F Adamietz… - ACS Photonics, 2022 - ACS Publications
Magneto-optical effects are attracting wide interest and are found in various applications,
including magnetic field sensors, optical modulators, isolators, and switches. In this work, we …

Faraday rotation in discotic liquid crystals by long-range electron movement

R Vleugels, J Steverlynck, W Brullot… - The Journal of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Faraday rotation (FR), a magneto-optic (MO) property of a material, is the rotation of the
plane of polarization of light by a magnetic field in the direction of the propagation of the …

Probing physical invariance between enantiomers: The magnetooptical and refractive properties of the simplest chiral amino acid–Alanine

M Koralewski, M Baranowski, A Ryzner - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2021 - Elsevier
Observation of magnetochiral (MCh) phenomena and their possible contributions to
mechanisms of homochirality among living things has stimulated interest in amino acids …