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

The scientific effort to control the interaction between light and matter has grown
exponentially in the last 2 decades. This growth has been aided by the development of …

Surfactant-assisted seeded growth of metal nanoparticles (NPs) can be engineered to
produce anisotropic gold nanocrystals with high chiroptical activity through the templating …

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

Many naturally occurring biomolecules, such as amino acids, sugars and nucleotides, are
inherently chiral. Enantiomers, a pair of chiral isomers with opposite handedness, often …

Molecular plasmonics, the area which deals with the interactions between surface plasmons
and molecules, has received enormous interest in fundamental research and found …

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 …

Chirality describes the geometric property of an object that is not superimposable on its
mirror image and has been a pivotal concept in chemistry and biology since the 19th …

Optical chiral metamaterials have recently attracted considerable attention because they
offer new and exciting opportunities for fundamental research and practical applications …

In the past half-century, surface plasmon resonance in noble metallic nanoparticles has
been an important research subject. Recent advances in the synthesis, assembly …