Nature Communications (Feb 2017)

Cooperative expression of atomic chirality in inorganic nanostructures

  • Peng-peng Wang,
  • Shang-Jie Yu,
  • Alexander O Govorov,
  • Min Ouyang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14312
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Cooperative chirality is common in organic and biomolecular systems but is rarely explored in inorganic materials. Here, the authors combine synthesis and theory to uncover cooperative chirality in inorganic nanocrystals, arising from the interplay of independently-controlled crystallographic and morphological chirality.