Multidimensional phase singularities in nanophotonics

J Ni, C Huang, LM Zhou, M Gu, Q Song, Y Kivshar… - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND Optical vortices provide one of the promising solutions for enhancing the
capacity of data multiplexing to meet an unprecedented growth in big data and internet traffic …

Nanophotonic approaches for chirality sensing

LA Warning, AR Miandashti, LA McCarthy, Q Zhang… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Chiral nanophotonic materials are promising candidates for biosensing applications
because they focus light into nanometer dimensions, increasing their sensitivity to the …

Chiral emission from resonant metasurfaces

X Zhang, Y Liu, J Han, Y Kivshar, Q Song - Science, 2022 - science.org
Ultracompact sources of circularly polarized light are important for classical and quantum
optical information processing. Conventional approaches for generating chiral emission are …

Miniature optoelectronic compound eye camera

ZY Hu, YL Zhang, C Pan, JY Dou, ZZ Li, ZN Tian… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Inspired by insect compound eyes (CEs) that feature unique optical schemes for imaging,
there has recently been growing interest in developing optoelectronic CE cameras with …

Optical spatiotemporal vortices

C Wan, A Chong, Q Zhan - eLight, 2023 - Springer
Spatiotemporal vortices of light, featuring transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM) and
energy circulation in the spatiotemporal domain, have received increasing attention recently …

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 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) …

Chiral nanostructures: new twists

NA Kotov, LM Liz-Marzan, PS Weiss - ACS Nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Chiral objects cannot be superimposed on their mirror images. This seemingly simple
property has unifying importance for physics, astronomy, chemistry, biology, and medicine, 1 …

Tailoring light with layered and moiré metasurfaces

G Hu, M Wang, Y Mazor, CW Qiu, A Alù - Trends in Chemistry, 2021 - cell.com
Optical metasurfaces are assemblies of subwavelength, artificially designed inclusions
forming planarized devices with unprecedented capabilities to manipulate electromagnetic …

Molecular chirality and its monitoring by ultrafast x-ray pulses

JR Rouxel, S Mukamel - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Major advances in X-ray sources including the development of circularly polarized and
orbital angular momentum pulses make it possible to probe matter chirality at …