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 …

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 …

Chirality and chiroptical effects in metal nanostructures: fundamentals and current trends

JT Collins, C Kuppe, DC Hooper… - Advanced Optical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Throughout the 19th and 20th century, chirality has mostly been associated with chemistry.
However, while chirality can be very useful for understanding molecules, molecules are not …

Metamaterials and chiral sensing: a review of fundamentals and applications

SJ Yoo, QH Park - Nanophotonics, 2019 - degruyter.com
Chirality, a property of broken mirror symmetry, prevails in nature. Chiral molecules show
different biochemical behaviors to their mirror molecules. For left or right circularly polarized …

Chirality transfer from sub‐nanometer biochemical molecules to sub‐micrometer plasmonic metastructures: physiochemical mechanisms, biosensing, and bioimaging …

Z Cao, H Gao, M Qiu, W Jin, S Deng… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Determining the structural chirality of biomolecules is of vital importance in bioscience and
biomedicine. Conventional methods for characterizing molecular chirality, eg, circular …

Plasmonic chirality and circular dichroism in bioassembled and nonbiological systems: theoretical background and recent progress

XT Kong, LV Besteiro, Z Wang… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Nature is chiral, thus chirality is a key concept required to understand a multitude of systems
in physics, chemistry, and biology. The field of optics offers valuable tools to probe the …

Chiral plasmonic nanostructures enabled by bottom-up approaches

MJ Urban, C Shen, XT Kong, C Zhu… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
We present a comprehensive review of recent developments in the field of chiral
plasmonics. Significant advances have been made recently in understanding the working …

Self‐assembly of chiral plasmonic nanostructures

X Lan, Q Wang - Advanced Materials, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Plasmonic chiroptical effects have attracted significant attention for their widespread
potential applications in negative‐refractive‐index materials, advanced light‐polarization …

Plasmon-enhanced Optical Chirality through hotspot formation in surfactant-directed self-assembly of gold nanorods

E Severoni, S Maniappan, LM Liz-Marzan, J Kumar… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Plasmonically enhanced optical dichroism has attracted substantial interest for its
application in optical sensing, where the interplay between chirality emanating from both …

Highly enantioselective photo-polymerization enhanced by chiral nanoparticles and in situ photopatterning of chirality

C He, Z Feng, S Shan, M Wang, X Chen… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Chiral noble metal nanoparticles has recently gained great interest due to their potential
applications including ultrasensitive chiral recognition and asymmetric synthesis. We …