Chiral nanophotonic materials are promising candidates for biosensing applications
because they focus light into nanometer dimensions, increasing their sensitivity to the …

We present a comprehensive overview of chirality and its optical manifestation in plasmonic
nanosystems and nanostructures. We discuss top-down fabricated structures that range from …

Quantitative determination and in situ monitoring of molecular chirality at extremely low
concentrations is still challenging with simple optics because of the molecular-scale …

The field of chiral inorganic nanostructures is rapidly expanding. It started from the
observation of strong circular dichroism during the synthesis of individual nanoparticles …

Circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy is conventionally utilized for the enantiomer-specific
analysis of chiral samples, which is of great significance in academia and industry. Recently …

Chiral Au nanorods (c-Au NRs) with diverse architectures constitute an interesting
nanospecies in the field of chiral nanophotonics. The numerous possible plasmonic …

Strong chiroptical effects recently reported result from the interaction of light with chiral
plasmonic nanostructures. Such nanostructures can be used to enhance the chiroptical …

One of the most intuitive ways to classically understand the generation of natural optical
activity in chiral media is provided by the coupled oscillator model of Born and Kuhn …

A great challenge for nanotechnology is to controllably organize anisotropic nanomaterials
into well-defined three-dimensional superstructures with customized properties. Here we …

Determining the structural chirality of biomolecules is of vital importance in bioscience and
biomedicine. Conventional methods for characterizing molecular chirality, eg, circular …