Recent advances in chiral nanomaterials with unique electric and magnetic properties

Abstract

Abstract Research on chiral nanomaterials (NMs) has grown radically with a rapid increase in the number of publications over the past decade. It has attracted a large number of scientists in various fields predominantly because of the emergence of unprecedented electric, optical, and magnetic properties when chirality arises in NMs. For applications, it is particularly informative and fascinating to investigate how chiral NMs interact with electromagnetic waves and magnetic fields, depending on their intrinsic composition properties, atomic distortions, and assembled structures. This review provides an overview of recent advances in chiral NMs, such as semiconducting, metallic, and magnetic nanostructures.

Keywords

• Chiral nanomaterials
• Inorganic nanomaterials
• Organic–inorganic hybrid nanomaterials
• Electromagnetic properties
• Biomimetic nanostructures