Widespread concerns over the impact of human activity on the environment have resulted in
a desire to replace artificial functional materials with naturally derived alternatives. As such …

In this review, we describe the recent advances in supramolecular helical assemblies
formed from chiral and achiral small molecules, oligomers (foldamers), and helical and …

Chiral materials capable of generating circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) have gained
rapidly growing research interest by virtue of their peculiar photophysical characteristics and …

Liquid crystals (LCs) are omnipresent in living matter, whose chirality is an elegant and
distinct feature in certain plant tissues, the cuticles of crabs, beetles, arthropods, and …

Circularly polarized light (CPL) is central to photonic technologies. A key challenge lies in
developing a general route for generation of CPL with tailored chiroptical activity using low …

The red or orange emission spectra of tripositive europium have led to thousands of
publications and to phosphor applications. The orange emission mainly arises from the 5 D …

Chiral fluorescent materials with fluorescent nanoparticles assembled into a chiral structure
represent a grand challenge. Here, we report self-assembled emissive needle-like …

Cellulose and gold nanoparticles have exciting characteristics and new combinations of
both materials may lead to promising functional nanocomposites with unique properties. We …

Novel chiral nematic liquid crystalline composite films with left and right circularly polarized
luminescence (CPL) are fabricated via the co-assembly of achiral luminophores and …

In the search for induced chiral plasmonic activity, cholesteric films formed by cellulose
nanocrystals have attracted great interest as potential hosts for plasmonic nanoparticles …