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Title: Chiral templating of self-assembling nanostructures by circularly polarized light

Journal Article · · Nature Materials
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4125· OSTI ID:1347139
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  1. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
  2. Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, IL (United States)
  3. Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States)
  4. Univ. of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
  5. Korea Basic Science Institute, Daejeon (Republic of Korea); Chung-Ang Univ., Dongjak-gu (Republic of Korea)
  6. Ikerbasque, Bilbao (Spain)
  7. Centro de Fisica de Materiales (MPC, CSIC-UPV/EHU), Donostia-San Sebastian (Spain)
  8. City Univ. of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
  9. Univ. of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA (United States); Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (United States)

Chemical reactions affected by spin angular momenta of circularly polarized photons are rare and display low enantiomeric excess. High optical and chemical activity of nanoparticles (NPs) should facilitate the transfer of spin angular momenta of photons to nanoscale materials but such processes are unknown. Here we demonstrate that circularly polarized light (CPL) strongly affects self-assembly of racemic CdTe NPs. Illumination of NP dispersions with right- and left-handed CPL induces the formation of right- and left-handed twisted nanoribbons, respectively. Enantiomeric excess of such reactions exceeds 30% which is ~10 times higher than other CPL-induced reactions. Illumination with linearly polarized light and assembly in the dark led to straight nanoribbons. The mechanism of “templation” of NP assemblies by CPL is associated with selective photoactivation of chiral NPs and clusters followed by their photooxidation. Chiral anisotropy of interactions translates into chirality of the assembled ribbons. Lastly, the ability of NPs to retain polarization information, or the “imprint” of incident photons opens new pathways for the synthesis of chiral photonic materials and allows for better understanding of the origins of biomolecular homochirality.

Research Organization:
Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for Solar and Thermal Energy Conversion (CSTEC); Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0000957; ECS-0601345; CBET 0933384; CBET 0932823; CBET 1036672; GM085043; 53062-ND6; 1309765
OSTI ID:
1347139
Journal Information:
Nature Materials, Vol. 14, Issue 1; ISSN 1476-1122
Publisher:
Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 284 works
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