Chirality plays an important role in biological processes,and enantiomers often possess similar physical properties and different physiologic functions.In recent years,chiral detection of enantiomers become a popular ...Chirality plays an important role in biological processes,and enantiomers often possess similar physical properties and different physiologic functions.In recent years,chiral detection of enantiomers become a popular topic.Plasmonic metasurfaces enhance weak inherent chiral effects of biomolecules,so they are used in chiral detection.Artificial intelligence algorithm makes a lot of contribution to many aspects of nanophotonics.Here,we propose a nanostructure design method based on reinforcement learning and devise chiral nanostructures to distinguish enantiomers.The algorithm finds out the metallic nanostructures with a sharp peak in circular dichroism spectra and emphasizes the frequency shifts caused by nearfield interaction of nanostructures and biomolecules.Our work inspires universal and efficient machine-learning methods for nanophotonic design.展开更多
Chirality is ubiquitous in natural world.Although with similar physical and chemical properties,chiral enantiomers could play different roles in biochemical processes.Discrimination of chiral enantiomers is extremely ...Chirality is ubiquitous in natural world.Although with similar physical and chemical properties,chiral enantiomers could play different roles in biochemical processes.Discrimination of chiral enantiomers is extremely important in biochemical,analytical chemistry,and pharmaceutical industries.Conventional chiroptical spectroscopic methods are disadvantageous at a limited detection sensitivity because of the weak signals of natural chiral molecules.Recently,superchiral fields were proposed to effectively enhance the interaction between light and molecules,allowing for ultrasensitive chiral detection.Intensive theoretical and experimental works have been devoted to generation of superchiral fields based on artificial nanostructures and their application in ultrasensitive chiral sensing.In this review,we present a survey on these works.We begin with the introduction of chiral properties of electromagnetic fields.Then,the optical chirality enhancement and ultrasensitive chiral detection based on chiral and achiral nanostructures are discussed respectively.Finally,we give a short summary and a perspective for the future ultrasensitive chiral sensing.展开更多
基金This work is supported by the National Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.12027807,62225501,and 11974002)National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2020YFA0211300,2020YFA0906900,and 2021YFF1200500)PKU-Baidu Fund Project(Grant No.2020BD023),and High-performance Computing Platform of Peking University.
文摘Chirality plays an important role in biological processes,and enantiomers often possess similar physical properties and different physiologic functions.In recent years,chiral detection of enantiomers become a popular topic.Plasmonic metasurfaces enhance weak inherent chiral effects of biomolecules,so they are used in chiral detection.Artificial intelligence algorithm makes a lot of contribution to many aspects of nanophotonics.Here,we propose a nanostructure design method based on reinforcement learning and devise chiral nanostructures to distinguish enantiomers.The algorithm finds out the metallic nanostructures with a sharp peak in circular dichroism spectra and emphasizes the frequency shifts caused by nearfield interaction of nanostructures and biomolecules.Our work inspires universal and efficient machine-learning methods for nanophotonic design.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.91850205 and 11904021).
文摘Chirality is ubiquitous in natural world.Although with similar physical and chemical properties,chiral enantiomers could play different roles in biochemical processes.Discrimination of chiral enantiomers is extremely important in biochemical,analytical chemistry,and pharmaceutical industries.Conventional chiroptical spectroscopic methods are disadvantageous at a limited detection sensitivity because of the weak signals of natural chiral molecules.Recently,superchiral fields were proposed to effectively enhance the interaction between light and molecules,allowing for ultrasensitive chiral detection.Intensive theoretical and experimental works have been devoted to generation of superchiral fields based on artificial nanostructures and their application in ultrasensitive chiral sensing.In this review,we present a survey on these works.We begin with the introduction of chiral properties of electromagnetic fields.Then,the optical chirality enhancement and ultrasensitive chiral detection based on chiral and achiral nanostructures are discussed respectively.Finally,we give a short summary and a perspective for the future ultrasensitive chiral sensing.
