Chirality and energy transfer amplified circularly polarized luminescence in composite nanohelix

Dong Yang; Pengfei Duan; Li Zhang; Minghua Liu

doi:10.1038/ncomms15727

Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

Chirality and energy transfer amplified circularly polarized luminescence in composite nanohelix

Dong Yang,
Pengfei Duan,
Li Zhang,
Minghua Liu

Affiliations

Dong Yang: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Science, CAS Key Laboratory of Colloid, Interface and Chemical Thermodynamics, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Pengfei Duan: Division of Nanophotonic, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, CAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST)
Li Zhang: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Science, CAS Key Laboratory of Colloid, Interface and Chemical Thermodynamics, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Minghua Liu: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Science, CAS Key Laboratory of Colloid, Interface and Chemical Thermodynamics, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15727
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Energy and chirality transfer play a crucial role in living systems. Here, the authors show that achiral acceptors and chiral donor gelators can assemble in a chirally-controlled manner into a supramolecular nanohelix that can additionally harvest circularly polarized energy.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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