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 …

Supramolecular helical systems: helical assemblies of small molecules, foldamers, and polymers with chiral amplification and their functions

E Yashima, N Ousaka, D Taura, K Shimomura… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
In this review, we describe the recent advances in supramolecular helical assemblies
formed from chiral and achiral small molecules, oligomers (foldamers), and helical and …

Core–shell structured titanium dioxide nanomaterials for solar energy utilization

W Li, A Elzatahry, D Aldhayan, D Zhao - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Because of its unmatched resource potential, solar energy utilization currently is one of the
hottest research areas. Much effort has been devoted to developing advanced materials for …

Helical graphitic carbon nitrides with photocatalytic and optical activities

Y Zheng, L Lin, X Ye, F Guo, X Wang - Angewandte Chemie, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Graphitic carbon nitride can be imprinted with a twisted hexagonal rod‐like morphology by a
nanocasting technique using chiral silicon dioxides as templates. The helical …

A review of TiO2 nanostructured catalysts for sustainable H2 generation

M Ge, J Cai, J Iocozzia, C Cao, J Huang… - international journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Hydrogen is an attractive alternative to fossil fuels that addresses several environmental and
energy shortage issues. Nano-sized TiO 2-based photocatalysts with unique structural and …

Spiral self-assembly of lamellar micelles into multi-shelled hollow nanospheres with unique chiral architecture

L Peng, H Peng, Y Liu, X Wang, CT Hung, Z Zhao… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Functional carbon nanospheres are exceptionally useful, yet controllable synthesis of them
with well-defined porosity and complex multi-shelled nanostructure remains challenging …

Chiral inorganic nanomaterials for photo (electro) catalytic conversion

W Fu, L Tan, P Wang - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Chiral inorganic nanomaterials due to their unique asymmetric nanostructures have
gradually demonstrated intriguing chirality-dependent performance in photo (electro) …

Chiral templating of self-assembling nanostructures by circularly polarized light

J Yeom, B Yeom, H Chan, KW Smith… - Nature materials, 2015 - nature.com
The high optical and chemical activity of nanoparticles (NPs) signifies the possibility of
converting the spin angular momenta of photons into structural changes in matter. Here, we …

Chiral mesostructured inorganic materials with optical chiral response

Y Duan, S Che - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Fabricating chiral inorganic materials and revealing their unique quantum confinement‐
determined optical chiral responses are crucial tasks in the multidisciplinary fields of …

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 …