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 …

Solid-state reaction synthesis of nanoscale materials: strategies and applications

A Kumar, S Dutta, S Kim, T Kwon, SS Patil… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanomaterials (NMs) with unique structures and compositions can give rise to exotic
physicochemical properties and applications. Despite the advancement in solution-based …

Biomimetic mineralization based on self-assembling peptides

Q Li, Y Wang, G Zhang, R Su, W Qi - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Biomimetic science has attracted great interest in the fields of chemistry, biology, materials
science, and energy. Biomimetic mineralization is the process of synthesizing inorganic …

Discrete metal nanoparticles with plasmonic chirality

G Zheng, J He, V Kumar, S Wang… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
From a geometrical perspective, a chiral object does not have mirror planes or inversion
symmetry. It exhibits the same physical properties as its mirror image (enantiomer), except …

Chiral nanocrystals grown from MoS2 nanosheets enable photothermally modulated enantioselective release of antimicrobial drugs

BL Li, JJ Luo, HL Zou, QM Zhang, LB Zhao… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The transfer of the concept of chirality from molecules to synthesized nanomaterials has
attracted attention amongst multidisciplinary teams. Here we demonstrate heterogeneous …

Chiral plasmonic nanostructures: recent advances in their synthesis and applications

W Wu, M Pauly - Materials Advances, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
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 …

Adenine oligomer directed synthesis of chiral gold nanoparticles

NH Cho, YB Kim, YY Lee, SW Im, RM Kim… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Precise control of morphology and optical response of 3-dimensional chiral nanoparticles
remain as a significant challenge. This work demonstrates chiral gold nanoparticle synthesis …

Chiral inorganic nanomaterials for photo (electro) catalytic conversion

W Fu, L Tan, P Wang - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Chiral inorganic nanomaterials due to their unique asymmetric nanostructures have
gradually demonstrated intriguing chirality-dependent performance in photo (electro) …

Dark-field microscopy: recent advances in accurate analysis and emerging applications

PF Gao, G Lei, CZ Huang - Analytical Chemistry, 2021 - ACS Publications
Self-luminous substances such as phosphorescent organisms and chemiluminescent
objects are ideal samples to observe under DFM. In such cases, no exogenous light source …

Synthesis of chiral Au nanocrystals with precise homochiral facets for enantioselective surface chemistry

F Wu, Y Tian, X Luan, X Lv, F Li, G Xu, W Niu - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Metal surfaces with intrinsic chirality play an irreplaceable role in many significant
enantioselective chemical processes such as enantioselective catalysis, sensing, and …