Endowing inorganic nanomaterials with circularly polarized luminescence
Dongxue Han,
Chengxi Li,
Chengyu Jiang,
Xue Jin,
Xiongbin Wang,
Rui Chen,
Jiaji Cheng,
Pengfei Duan
Affiliations
Dongxue Han
CAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience National Center for Nanoscience and Technology Beijing P. R. China
Chengxi Li
CAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience National Center for Nanoscience and Technology Beijing P. R. China
Chengyu Jiang
CAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience National Center for Nanoscience and Technology Beijing P. R. China
Xue Jin
CAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience National Center for Nanoscience and Technology Beijing P. R. China
Xiongbin Wang
Key Laboratory for the Green Preparation and Application of Functional Materials Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Hubei University Wuhan P. R. China
Rui Chen
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Southern University of Science and Technology Shenzhen P. R. China
Jiaji Cheng
Key Laboratory for the Green Preparation and Application of Functional Materials Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Hubei University Wuhan P. R. China
Pengfei Duan
CAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience National Center for Nanoscience and Technology Beijing P. R. China
Abstract Recently, materials with circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) properties have attracted substantial attention because they offer new perspectives in fundamental research and wide applications in photonics, bio‐encoding, catalysis, and so forth. Such importance has recently promoted the development of CPL‐active materials from the traditional realm of organics to newly released areas in inorganics. Due to the advantages of inorganic nanomaterials in stability, high luminescent quantum efficiency, material diversity, and the diversity of shapes and sizes, extensive research about CPL active inorganic nanomaterials has been done in the past decades leading to great signs of progress on synthesis, characterizations, and potential applications. In this review, therefore, we will thoroughly describe the general design principles of inorganic nanomaterials with CPL activity, basically according to the origins of chirality in inorganic nanomaterials: intrinsic chirality in inorganic nanomaterials, ligand‐induced chirality, and structural chirality caused by the supramolecular assembly, respectively. The representative applications of the CPL‐active inorganic nanomaterials are presented with respect to challenges, prospective, and problems that unsolved to date.
