Chiral Inorganic Nanostructures

The field of chiral inorganic nanostructures is rapidly expanding. It started from the observation of strong circular dichroism during the synthesis of individual nanoparticles (NPs) and their assemblies and expanded to sophisticated synthetic protocols involving nanostructures from metals, semiconductors, ceramics, and nanocarbons. Besides the well-established chirality transfer from bioorganic molecules, other methods to impart handedness to nanoscale matter specific to inorganic materials were discovered, including three-dimentional lithography, multiphoton chirality transfer, polarization effects in nanoscale assemblies, and others. Multiple chiral geometries were observed with characteristic scales from…

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  Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

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  National Natural Science Foundation of China

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  Ministério da Educação
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  Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University

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  Division of Materials Research

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  Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems

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  Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation

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