Stimulating and harnessing circularly polarized luminescence of helically assembled carbonized polymer dots via interfacial dynamics

Stimulating and harnessing circularly polarized luminescence(CPL)is not only a sine qua non for fundamentally unveiling chirogenesis in physical chemistry,but also a pivotal prerequisite for implementation of such phenomenon in research fields including chiral optoelectronics and theranostics.Herein,red-emissive carbonized polymer dots(CPDs)-based helical structures were synthesized in this work via biomolecule-tailored organic–inorganic co-assembly strategy.The surface statesrelated chirality exhibits enhanced circular dichroism(CD)and CPL activities with anisotropic factors as high as gCD,max=5.4×10^(−3) and glum,max=1.5×10^(−2),respectively.The obtained CPL signals can be further manipulated in an excitationdependent manner,indicating that a synergistic-competition phenomenon exists between configurational chirality and intermolecular energy-transfer dynamics,which is further supported by simulations based on density function theory(DFT).Such tunable CPL behavior triggers revolutionary designs and applications of these chiral CPDs into the realm of chirality-related biological issues and next-generation chiral optoelectronics.

Metal-to-ligand charge transfer chirality-based sensing of mercury ions

Chiral ligand conjugated transition metal oxide nanoparticles(NPs) are a promising platform for chiral recognition, biochemical sensing, and chiroptics. Herein, we present chirality-based strategy for effective sensing of mercury ions via ligand-induced chirality derived from metal-to-ligand charge transfer(MLCT) effects. The ligand competition effect between molybdenum and heavy metal ions such as mercury is designated to be essential for MLCT chirality. With this know-how, mercury ions, which have a larger stability constant(Kf) than molybdenum, can be selectively identified and quantified with a limit of detection(LOD) of 0.08 and 0.12 nmol/L for D-cysteine and L-cysteine(Cys) capped Mo O2 NPs. Such chiral chemical sensing nanosystems would be an ideal prototype for biochemical sensing with a significant impact on the field of biosensing, biological systems,and water research-based nanotoxicology.

Endowing inorganic nanomaterials with circularly polarized luminescence

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.