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 …

Control of light, spin and charge with chiral metal halide semiconductors

H Lu, ZV Vardeny, MC Beard - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
The relationship between the structural asymmetry and optoelectronic properties of
functional materials is an active area of research. The movement of charges through an …

Gate-tuneable and chirality-dependent charge-to-spin conversion in tellurium nanowires

F Calavalle, M Suárez-Rodríguez, B Martín-García… - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Chiral materials are an ideal playground for exploring the relation between symmetry,
relativistic effects and electronic transport. For instance, chiral organic molecules have been …

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) …

Single‐Orientation Epitaxy of Quasi‐1D Tellurium Nanowires on M‐Plane Sapphire for Highly Uniform Polarization Sensitive Short‐Wave Infrared Photodetection

X Wei, S Wang, N Zhang, Y Li, Y Tang… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tellurium (Te), an elemental van der Waals semiconductor, has intriguing anisotropic
physical properties owing to its inherent quais‐1D crystal structure. Synthesizing ultrathin Te …

From helices to crystals: Multiscale representation of chirality in double-helix structures

CY Li, H Xu, PM Cheng, MH Du, LS Long… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Single crystals with chiral shapes aroused the interest of chemists due to their fascinating
polarization rotation properties. Although the formation of large-scale spiral structures is …

Chirality conferral enables the observation of hyper-Raman optical activity

RR Jones, JF Kerr, H Kwon, SR Clowes, R Ji… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Chirality conferral is fundamental for understanding the origin of life, and it is of direct
importance for synthesizing new pharmaceuticals in the face of growing antibiotic …

Chiral nanoparticle-remodeled gut microbiota alleviates neurodegeneration via the gut–brain axis

X Guo, C Li, J Zhang, M Sun, J Xu, C Xu, H Kuang… - Nature Aging, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by amyloid-β accumulation in the brain and
hyperphosphorylated tau aggregation, as well as neuroinflammation. The gut–brain axis has …

Atomic layer deposition route to scalable, electronic-grade van der Waals Te thin films

C Kim, N Hur, J Yang, S Oh, J Yeo, HY Jeong… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Scalable production and integration techniques for van der Waals (vdW) layered materials
are vital for their implementation in next-generation nanoelectronics. Among available …