Circularly polarized light-enabled chiral nanomaterials: from fabrication to application

C Hao, G Wang, C Chen, J Xu, C Xu, H Kuang, L Xu - Nano-Micro Letters, 2023 - Springer
For decades, chiral nanomaterials have been extensively studied because of their
extraordinary properties. Chiral nanostructures have attracted a lot of interest because of …

Chirality and surface bonding correlation in atomically precise metal nanoclusters

Y Li, T Higaki, X Du, R Jin - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Chirality is ubiquitous in nature and occurs at all length scales. The development of
applications for chiral nanostructures is rising rapidly. With the recent achievements of …

Perspective of chiral colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals: opportunity and challenge

X Gao, B Han, X Yang, Z Tang - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Chiral colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) are an emerging type of chiral materials.
These chiral NCs exhibit unique quantum confinement-determined optical activity and have …

Enhancing Circularly Polarized Luminescence in Quantum Dots through Chiral Coordination-Mediated Growth at the Liquid/Liquid Interface

J Cai, AA Liu, XH Shi, H Fu, W Zhao, L Xu… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Here, we develop a novel methodology for synthesizing chiral CdSe@ ZnS quantum dots
(QDs) with enhanced circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) by incorporating l-/d-histidine …

Chirality‐based biosensors

W Ma, L Xu, L Wang, C Xu… - Advanced Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The fabrication of chiral nanostructures gives rise to characteristic chiroptical activity, which
can be used for chirality‐based biosensors. Great progress is made in the use of …

Artificial chiral probes and bioapplications

C Hao, L Xu, H Kuang, C Xu - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The development of artificial chiral architectures, especially chiral inorganic nanostructures,
has greatly promoted research into chirality in nanoscience. The nanoscale chirality of …

Ligand-induced chirality and optical activity in semiconductor nanocrystals: theory and applications

V Kuznetsova, Y Gromova, M Martinez-Carmona… - …, 2020 - degruyter.com
Chirality is one of the most fascinating occurrences in the natural world and plays a crucial
role in chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacology, and medicine. Chirality has also been …

Optically active CdSe-dot/CdS-rod nanocrystals with induced chirality and circularly polarized luminescence

J Cheng, J Hao, H Liu, J Li, J Li, X Zhu, X Lin, K Wang… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Ligand-induced chirality in semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) has attracted attention
because of the tunable optical properties of the NCs. Induced circular dichroism (CD) has …

Chirality at nanoscale for bioscience

M Sun, X Wang, X Guo, L Xu, H Kuang, C Xu - Chemical Science, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In the rapidly expanding fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology, there is considerable
interest in chiral nanomaterials, which are endowed with unusually strong circular dichroism …

Effect of chiral ligand concentration and binding mode on chiroptical activity of CdSe/CdS quantum dots

VA Kuznetsova, E Mates-Torres, N Prochukhan… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Chiroptically active fluorescent semiconductor nanocrystals, quantum dots (QDs), are of high
interest from a theoretical and technological point of view, because they are promising …