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Ward MD, Docherty R, Minion L, Shi X, Anson K, Siligardi G, Nelson J, Wade J, Fuchter MJ. Development of low-cost, compact chiroptical imaging systems. NANOSCALE 2024; 16:11623-11632. [PMID: 38864422 PMCID: PMC11189636 DOI: 10.1039/d4nr01651c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2024] [Accepted: 06/03/2024] [Indexed: 06/13/2024]
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Circular dichroism spectroscopy is a key probe of the structural and optical properties of chiral materials, however, commercial circular dichroism spectrometers are large, prohibitively expensive and rarely offer environmental control of the sample under test. Using Fresnel rhombs as inexpensive broadband quarter-wave plates, we demonstrate two novel, low-cost (<£2000) and portable imaging systems controlled by our own bespoke open-source control software which are capable of spatially mapping the circular dichroism of chiral solid state films. By coupling these imaging systems with a temperature controlled stage, we show that we can rapidly identify the thermal processing conditions required to maximise circular dichroism in chiral solid state films by measuring circular dichroism in situ during thermal annealing of a sample under test. The accuracy and spatial resolution of these circular dichroism imagers are cross-compared against our previous studies using an existing circular dichroism imaging system at the Diamond Light Source and are shown to be in good agreement, with a sensitivity down to 250 mdeg and a spatial resolution of 100 μm.
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- Matthew D Ward
- Department of Physics, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK
- Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Department of Materials, Exhibition Road, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.
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- Department of Materials, Exhibition Road, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.
- Department of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial College London, White City Campus, 82 Wood Lane, London, W12 0BZ, UK.
- B23 Beamline, Diamond Light Source Ltd, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, UK
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- Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK
- Department of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial College London, White City Campus, 82 Wood Lane, London, W12 0BZ, UK.
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- Department of Physics, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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- B23 Beamline, Diamond Light Source Ltd, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, UK
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- Department of Physics, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK
- Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK
- Department of Materials, Exhibition Road, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.
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- Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK
- Department of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial College London, White City Campus, 82 Wood Lane, London, W12 0BZ, UK.
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Hashiyada S, Tanaka YY. Rapid modulation of left- and right-handed optical vortices for precise measurements of helical dichroism. THE REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS 2024; 95:053101. [PMID: 38690981 DOI: 10.1063/5.0203715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2024] [Accepted: 04/16/2024] [Indexed: 05/03/2024]
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Helical dichroism (HD), which is defined as the difference in optical absorption between chiral pairs of lights involving left-handed (LH) and right-handed (RH) optical vortices (OVs) carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM), is a promising way to characterize chiral materials. In the current major methods of OV generation using spatial light modulators (SLMs), the speed of OAM switching is typically as slow as 100 Hz, which is comparable to low-frequency noise, making precise chiral detection difficult. Here, we theoretically propose and experimentally demonstrate a rapid modulation of the LH and RH OVs at around 50 kHz. This modulation is achieved through a rapid modulation of circularly polarized lights carrying spin angular momentum (SAM), combined with a SAM-OAM conversion technique. We establish a theory not only for rapid OV modulation but also for HD measurements using the modulated OVs. We experimentally verify the theory using helical phase holograms drawn on a SLM as a pseudo-HD active sample. Our work addresses the limitations of current methods and offers a new avenue for precise HD measurements, paving the way for the development of sensitive chiral-optical spectroscopy techniques.
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Wang Y, Xu J, Shao X, Visser TD. Circular polarizers and their effect on partial coherence. OPTICS EXPRESS 2024; 32:9512-9517. [PMID: 38571184 DOI: 10.1364/oe.519877] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2024] [Accepted: 02/18/2024] [Indexed: 04/05/2024]
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We examine the action of a circular polarizer on an incident beam that is spatially partially coherent and partially polarized. It is found that the beam's coherence area can be significantly increased or decreased by the polarizer. Furthermore, an expression for the transmission efficiency is derived.
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Inoue Y, Ogawa J, Morita H, Sakaue K, Wakayama T, Higashiguchi T. Megahertz detection of spectroscopic polarization by a time-encoded supercontinuum vector beam. APPLIED OPTICS 2024; 63:423-428. [PMID: 38227238 DOI: 10.1364/ao.503943] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2023] [Accepted: 12/11/2023] [Indexed: 01/17/2024]
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We demonstrated a 40-MHz detection of spectroscopic polarization by a supercontinuum vector beam with a wavelength-dependent polarization state. To achieve the high-repetition-rate measurement, we detected the rotation angle of polarization and the spectrum by measuring the temporal waveform using a photodetector after expanding the pulse duration of the supercontinuum vector beam. The spectrum of the supercontinuum vector beam was measured using a spectrometer. We compared it with the temporal waveforms, confirming a good agreement of spectra between the conventional spectrometer and the temporal waveforms. The detection method is useful for many applications requiring high-repetition-rate spectroscopic-polarization measurements, such as the defect inspection of thin optical materials.
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Endo K, Hashiyada S, Narushima T, Togawa Y, Okamoto H. Circular dichroism of pseudo-two-dimensional metal nanostructures: Rotational symmetry and reciprocity. J Chem Phys 2023; 159:234706. [PMID: 38112510 DOI: 10.1063/5.0178943] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2023] [Accepted: 11/28/2023] [Indexed: 12/21/2023] Open
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Circular dichroism (CD) spectra for pseudo-two-dimensional chiral nanomaterials were systematically investigated and analyzed in relation to the rotational symmetry of the nanomaterials. Theoretically, an ideal two-dimensional chiral matter is CD inactive for light incident normal to the plane if it possesses threefold or higher rotational symmetry. If the matter has two- or onefold rotational symmetry, it should exhibit CD activity, and the CD signal measured from the back side of the matter is expected to be inverted from that measured from the front side. For pseudo-two-dimensional chiral gold nanostructures fabricated on glass substrates using electron beam lithography, matter with fourfold rotational symmetry is found to be CD active, even when special care is taken to ensure that the optical environments for the front and back sides of the sample are equivalent. In this case, the CD signal measured from the back side is found to be almost exactly the same as that measured from the front side. It is revealed that the observed chiro-optical behavior arises from three-dimensional chiral characteristics due to differences in the surface shape between the front and back sides of the structures. For matter that is two- or onefold rotationally symmetric, the CD signal measured from the back side is not coincident with that from the front side. For certain wavelength regions, the CD signals measured from the front side and back side are observed to be similar, while at other wavelengths, the inverted component of the CD signals is found to dominate. The observed CD spectral behavior for reciprocal optical measurement configurations is considered to be determined by a balance between the in-plane isotropic and anisotropic components of the chiral permittivity.
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- Kensaku Endo
- Department of Physics and Electronics, School of Engineering, Osaka Metropolitan University, Gakuen-cho, Naka-ku, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan
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- Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585, Japan
- The Graduate University of Advanced Studies (Sokendai), Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585, Japan
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- Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585, Japan
- The Graduate University of Advanced Studies (Sokendai), Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585, Japan
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- Department of Physics and Electronics, School of Engineering, Osaka Metropolitan University, Gakuen-cho, Naka-ku, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan
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- Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585, Japan
- The Graduate University of Advanced Studies (Sokendai), Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585, Japan
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Albano G, Taddeucci A, Pescitelli G, Di Bari L. Spatially Resolved Chiroptical Spectroscopies Emphasizing Recent Applications to Thin Films of Chiral Organic Dyes. Chemistry 2023; 29:e202301982. [PMID: 37515814 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202301982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2023] [Revised: 07/28/2023] [Accepted: 07/28/2023] [Indexed: 07/31/2023]
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Instrumental techniques able to identify and structurally characterize the aggregation states in thin films of chiral organic π-conjugated materials, from the first-order supramolecular arrangement up to the microscopic and mesoscopic scale, are very helpful for clarifying structure-property relationships. Chiroptical imaging is currently gaining a central role, for its ability of mapping local supramolecular structures in thin films. The present review gives an overview of electronic circular dichroism imaging (ECDi), circularly polarized luminescence imaging (CPLi), and vibrational circular dichroism imaging (VCDi), with a focus on their applications on thin films of chiral organic dyes as case studies.
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- Gianluigi Albano
- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Via Giuseppe Moruzzi 13, 56124, Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Via Giuseppe Moruzzi 13, 56124, Pisa, Italy
- Diamond Light Source, Ltd., Chilton, Didcot, OX11 0DE, UK
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Via Giuseppe Moruzzi 13, 56124, Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Via Giuseppe Moruzzi 13, 56124, Pisa, Italy
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Han XB, Wang W, Jin ML, Jing CQ, Liang BD, Chai CY, Xiong RG, Zhang W. Unveiling Chiral Perovskite CD Signal Scaling: Discerning Authentic and Counterfeit Signals through Sample-State Analysis. Anal Chem 2023; 95:16201-16209. [PMID: 37878758 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.3c02933] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2023]
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Circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy is a well-known and powerful technique widely used for distinguishing chiral enantiomers based on their differential absorbance of the right and left circularly polarized light. With the increasing demand for solid-state chiral optics, CD spectroscopy has been extended to elucidate the chirality of solid-state samples beyond the traditional solution state. However, due to the sample preparation differential, the CD spectra of the same compound measured by different researchers may not be mutually consistent. In this study, we employ solution, powder, thin-film, and single-crystal samples to explore the challenges associated with CD measurements and distinguish between genuine and fake signals. Rational fabrication of the solid-state samples can effectively minimize the macroscopic anisotropic nature of the samples and thereby mitigate the influence of linear dichroism (LD) and linear birefringence (LB) effects, which arise from anisotropy-induced differences in the absorbances and refractive indices. The local anisotropic and overall isotropic features of the high-quality thin-film sample achieve an optically isotropic state, which exhibits superior CD signal repeatability at the front and back sides at different angles by rotating the sample along the light path. In addition, sample thickness-induced CD signal overload and absorption saturation pose more severe challenges than the LBLD-induced amplified CD signal but are rarely focused on. The CD signal overload in the deep UV region leads to the presence of fake signals, while absorption saturation results in a complete loss of the CD signal. These findings help obtain accurate CD signals by a well-fabricated optically isotropic sample to avoid LDLB and optimize the sample thickness to avoid fake signals and no signals.
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- Xiang-Bin Han
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Science and Applications of Molecular Ferroelectrics and School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Science and Applications of Molecular Ferroelectrics and School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Science and Applications of Molecular Ferroelectrics and School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Science and Applications of Molecular Ferroelectrics and School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Science and Applications of Molecular Ferroelectrics and School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Science and Applications of Molecular Ferroelectrics and School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
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- Ordered Matter Science Research Center, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Science and Applications of Molecular Ferroelectrics and School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
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Taddeucci A, Zinna F, Siligardi G, Di Bari L. Circularly Polarized Microscopy of Thin Films of Chiral Organic Dyes. CHEMICAL & BIOMEDICAL IMAGING 2023; 1:471-478. [PMID: 37655166 PMCID: PMC10467535 DOI: 10.1021/cbmi.3c00049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2023] [Revised: 05/19/2023] [Accepted: 05/23/2023] [Indexed: 09/02/2023]
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We introduce an optical microscopy technique, circularly polarized microscopy or CPM, able to afford spatially resolved electronic circular dichroism (ECD) of thin films of chiral organic semiconductors through a commercial microscope equipped with a camera and inexpensive optics. Provided the dichroic ratio is sufficiently large, the spatial resolution is on the order of the μm and is only limited by the magnification optics integrated in the microscope. We apply CPM to thin films of small chiral π-conjugated molecules, which gave rise to ordered aggregates in the thin layer. Primarily, conventional ECD can reveal and characterize chiral supramolecular structures and possible interferences between anisotropic properties of solid samples; however, it cannot generally account for the spatial distribution of such properties. CPM offers a characterization of supramolecular chirality and of commingling polarization anisotropies of the material, describing their local distribution. To validate CPM, we demonstrated that it can be adopted to quantify the local ECD of samples characterized by intense signals, virtually on any standard optical microscope.
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Affiliation(s)
- Andrea Taddeucci
- Dipartimento
di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, University
of Pisa, Via Moruzzi 13, 56124 Pisa, Italy
- Diamond
Light Source Ltd., Chilton, Didcot OX11 0DE, United
Kingdom
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, University
of Pisa, Via Moruzzi 13, 56124 Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, University
of Pisa, Via Moruzzi 13, 56124 Pisa, Italy
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De Rosa DF, Stachelek P, Black DJ, Pal R. Rapid handheld time-resolved circularly polarised luminescence photography camera for life and material sciences. Nat Commun 2023; 14:1537. [PMID: 36941271 PMCID: PMC10027819 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37329-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2022] [Accepted: 03/13/2023] [Indexed: 03/23/2023] Open
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Circularly polarised luminescence (CPL) is gaining a rapidly increasing following and finding new applications in both life and material sciences. Spurred by recent instrumental advancements, the development of CPL active chiral emitters is going through a renaissance, especially the design and synthesis of CPL active luminescent lanthanide complexes owing to their unique and robust photophysical properties. They possess superior circularly polarised brightness (CPB) and can encode vital chiral molecular fingerprints in their long-lived emission spectrum. However, their application as embedded CPL emitters in intelligent security inks has not yet been fully exploited. This major bottleneck is purely hardware related: there is currently no suitable compact CPL instrumentation available, and handheld CPL photography remains an uncharted territory. Here we present a solution: an all solid-state small footprint CPL camera with no moving parts to facilitate ad hoc time-resolved enantioselective differential chiral contrast (EDCC) based one-shot CPL photography (CPLP).
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- Davide F De Rosa
- Department of Chemistry, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK.
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Nakajima R, Hirobe D, Kawaguchi G, Nabei Y, Sato T, Narushima T, Okamoto H, Yamamoto HM. Giant spin polarization and a pair of antiparallel spins in a chiral superconductor. Nature 2023; 613:479-484. [PMID: 36653570 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05589-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2021] [Accepted: 11/23/2022] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
Abstract
Chiral molecules can exhibit spin-selective charge emission, which is known as chirality-induced spin selectivity1,2. Despite the constituent light elements of the molecules, their spin polarization can approach or even exceed that of typical ferromagnets. This powerful capability may lead to applications in the chiral spintronics2 field. Although the origin of spin selectivity is elusive, two microscopic phenomena have been suggested based on experimental results: effective enhancement of spin-orbit interactions3 and chirality represented by a pair of oppositely polarized spins4,5. However, the hypotheses remain to be verified. Here we report the simultaneous observation of these two phenomena in an organic chiral superconductor by magnetoresistance measurements in the vicinity of the superconducting transition temperature. A pair of oppositely polarized spins is demonstrated by spatially mapping the spin polarity in an electric alternating current excitation. The obtained spin polarization exceeds that of the Edelstein effect6-10 by several orders of magnitude, which indicates an effective enhancement of the spin-orbit interaction. Our results demonstrate a solid-state analogue of spin accumulations assumed for chiral molecules, and may provide clues to the origin of their molecular counterparts. In addition, the innovative capability of spin-current sourcing will invigorate superconducting spintronics research11.
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- R Nakajima
- Institute for Molecular Science, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan.,The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan
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- Institute for Molecular Science, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan. .,The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan. .,PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan. .,Shizuoka University, Suruga, Shizuoka, Japan.
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- Institute for Molecular Science, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan
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- Institute for Molecular Science, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan.,The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan
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- Institute for Molecular Science, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan.,The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan
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- Institute for Molecular Science, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan.,The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan.,Elementary and Secondary Education Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
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- Institute for Molecular Science, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan.,The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan
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- Institute for Molecular Science, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan. .,The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan.
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Spaeth P, Adhikari S, Heyvaert W, Zhuo X, García I, Liz-Marzán LM, Bals S, Orrit M, Albrecht W. Photothermal Circular Dichroism Measurements of Single Chiral Gold Nanoparticles Correlated with Electron Tomography. ACS PHOTONICS 2022; 9:3995-4004. [PMID: 36573165 PMCID: PMC9783064 DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.2c01457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
Abstract
Chemically synthesized metal nanoparticles with morphological chiral features are known to exhibit strong circular dichroism. However, we still lack understanding of the correlation between morphological and chiroptical features of plasmonic nanoparticles. To shed light on that question, single nanoparticle experiments are required. We performed photothermal circular dichroism measurements of single chiral and achiral gold nanoparticles and correlated the chiroptical response to the 3D morphology of the same nanoparticles retrieved by electron tomography. In contrast to an ensemble measurement, we show that individual particles within the ensemble display a broad distribution of strength and handedness of circular dichroism signals. Whereas obvious structural chiral features, such as helical wrinkles, translate into chiroptical ones, nanoparticles with less obvious chiral morphological features can also display strong circular dichroism signals. Interestingly, we find that even seemingly achiral nanoparticles can display large g-factors. The origin of this circular dichroism signal is discussed in terms of plasmonics and other potentially relevant factors.
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- Patrick Spaeth
- Huygens-Kamerlingh
Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University, 2300Leiden, RA, The Netherlands
- Department
of Sustainable Energy Materials, AMOLF, Science Park 104, 1098Amsterdam, XG, The Netherlands
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- Huygens-Kamerlingh
Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University, 2300Leiden, RA, The Netherlands
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- EMAT
and NANOlab Center of Excellence, University
of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan
171, B-2020Antwerp, Belgium
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- Basque
Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), CIC biomaGUNE, Paseo de Miramón 182, 20014Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
- CIBER de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Paseo de Miramón 182, 20014Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
- School
of Science Engineering, The Chinese University
of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), Shenzhen518172, China
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- Basque
Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), CIC biomaGUNE, Paseo de Miramón 182, 20014Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
- CIBER de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Paseo de Miramón 182, 20014Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
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- Basque
Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), CIC biomaGUNE, Paseo de Miramón 182, 20014Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
- CIBER de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Paseo de Miramón 182, 20014Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
- Ikerbasque
(Basque Foundation for Science), 48009Bilbao, Spain
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- EMAT
and NANOlab Center of Excellence, University
of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan
171, B-2020Antwerp, Belgium
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- Huygens-Kamerlingh
Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University, 2300Leiden, RA, The Netherlands
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- Huygens-Kamerlingh
Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University, 2300Leiden, RA, The Netherlands
- Department
of Sustainable Energy Materials, AMOLF, Science Park 104, 1098Amsterdam, XG, The Netherlands
- EMAT
and NANOlab Center of Excellence, University
of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan
171, B-2020Antwerp, Belgium
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Adhikari S, Orrit M. Optically Probing the Chirality of Single Plasmonic Nanostructures and of Single Molecules: Potential and Obstacles. ACS PHOTONICS 2022; 9:3486-3497. [PMID: 36411819 PMCID: PMC9673138 DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.2c01205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2022] [Revised: 10/07/2022] [Accepted: 10/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
Abstract
Circular dichroism (CD) is a standard method for the analysis of biomolecular conformation. It is very reliable when applied to molecules, but requires relatively large amounts of solution. Plasmonics offer the perspective of enhancement of CD signals, which would extend CD spectrometry to smaller amounts of molecules and to weaker chiral signals. However, plasmonic enhancement comes at the cost of additional complications: averaging over all orientations is no longer possible or reliable, linear dichroism leaks into CD signals because of experimental imperfections, scattering and its interference with the incident beam must be taken into account, and the interaction between chiral molecules and possibly chiral plasmonic structures considerably complicates the interpretation of measured signals. This Perspective aims to explore the motivations and problems of plasmonic chirality and to re-evaluate present and future solutions.
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Sasikumar D, Vinod K, Sunny J, Hariharan M. Exciton interactions in helical crystals of a hydrogen-bonded eumelanin monomer. Chem Sci 2022; 13:2331-2338. [PMID: 35310511 PMCID: PMC8864807 DOI: 10.1039/d1sc06755a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2021] [Accepted: 01/19/2022] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
Abstract
Eumelanin, a naturally occurring group of heterogeneous polymers/aggregates providing photoprotection to living organisms, consist of 5,6-dihydroxyindole (DHI) and 5,6-dihydroxyindole-2-carboxylic acid (DHICA) building blocks. Despite their prevalence in the animal world, the structure and therefore the mechanism behind the photoprotective broadband absorption and non-radiative decay of eumelanin remain largely unknown. As a small step towards solving the incessant mystery, DHI is crystallized in a non-protic solvent environment to obtain DHI crystals having a helical packing motif. The present approach reflects the solitary directional effect of hydrogen bonds between the DHI chromophores for generating the crystalline assembly and filters out any involvement of the surrounding solvent environment. The DHI single crystals having an atypical chiral packing motif (P212121 Sohncke space group) incorporate enantiomeric zig-zag helical stacks arranged in a herringbone fashion with respect to each other. Each of the zig-zag helical stacks originates from a bifurcated hydrogen bonding interaction between the hydroxyl substituents in adjacent DHI chromophores which act as the backbone structure for the helical assembly. Fragment-based excited state analysis performed on the DHI crystalline assembly demonstrates exciton delocalization along the DHI units that connect each enantiomeric helical stack while, within each stack, the excitons remain localized. Fascinatingly, over the time evolution for generation of single-crystals of the DHI-monomer, mesoscopic double-helical crystals are formed, possibly attributed to the presence of covalently connected DHI trimers in chloroform solution. The oligomeric DHI (in line with the chemical disorder model) along with the characteristic crystalline packing observed for DHI provides insights into the broadband absorption feature exhibited by the chromophore.
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- Devika Sasikumar
- School of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram Maruthamala P.O., Vithura Thiruvananthapuram Kerala 695551 India
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- School of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram Maruthamala P.O., Vithura Thiruvananthapuram Kerala 695551 India
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- School of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram Maruthamala P.O., Vithura Thiruvananthapuram Kerala 695551 India
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- School of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram Maruthamala P.O., Vithura Thiruvananthapuram Kerala 695551 India
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Nemati A, Querciagrossa L, Callison C, Shadpour S, Nunes Gonçalves DP, Mori T, Cui X, Ai R, Wang J, Zannoni C, Hegmann T. Effects of shape and solute-solvent compatibility on the efficacy of chirality transfer: Nanoshapes in nematics. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2022; 8:eabl4385. [PMID: 35080976 PMCID: PMC8791610 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abl4385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Chirality, as a concept, is well understood at most length scales. However, quantitative models predicting the efficacy of the transmission of chirality across length scales are lacking. We propose here a modus operandi for a chiral nanoshape solute in an achiral nematic liquid crystal host showing that that chirality transfer may be understood by unusually simple geometric considerations. This mechanism is based on the product of a pseudoscalar chirality indicator and of a geometric shape compatibility factor based on the two-dimensional isoperimetric quotients for each nanoshape solute. The model is tested on an experimental set of precisely engineered gold nanoshapes. These libraries of calculated and in-parallel acquired experimental data among related nanoshapes pave the way for predictive calculations of chirality transfer in nanoscale, macromolecular, and biological systems, from designing chiral discriminators and enantioselective catalysts to developing chiral metamaterials and understanding nature's innate ability to transfer homochirality across length scales.
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- Ahlam Nemati
- Materials Science Graduate Program, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA
- Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA
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- Dipartimento di Chimica Industriale and INSTM, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Materials Science Graduate Program, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA
- Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA
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- Materials Science Graduate Program, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA
- Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA
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- Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Dipartimento di Chimica Industriale and INSTM, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Corresponding author. (C.Z.); (T.H.)
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- Materials Science Graduate Program, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA
- Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA
- Brain Health Research Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA
- Corresponding author. (C.Z.); (T.H.)
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Stachelek P, MacKenzie L, Parker D, Pal R. Circularly polarised luminescence laser scanning confocal microscopy to study live cell chiral molecular interactions. Nat Commun 2022; 13:553. [PMID: 35087047 PMCID: PMC8795401 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-28220-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2021] [Accepted: 12/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
The molecular machinery of life is founded on chiral building blocks, but no experimental technique is currently available to distinguish or monitor chiral systems in live cell bio-imaging studies. Luminescent chiral molecules encode a unique optical fingerprint within emitted circularly polarized light (CPL) carrying information about the molecular environment, conformation, and binding state. Here, we present a CPL Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope (CPL-LSCM) capable of simultaneous chiroptical contrast based live-cell imaging of endogenous and engineered CPL-active cellular probes. Further, we demonstrate that CPL-active probes can be activated using two-photon excitation, with complete CPL spectrum recovery. The combination of these two milestone results empowers the multidisciplinary imaging community, allowing the study of chiral interactions on a sub-cellular level in a new (chiral) light.
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- Patrycja Stachelek
- Department of Chemistry, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK.
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Morgenroth M, Scholz M, Cho MJ, Choi DH, Oum K, Lenzer T. Mapping the broadband circular dichroism of copolymer films with supramolecular chirality in time and space. Nat Commun 2022; 13:210. [PMID: 35017508 PMCID: PMC8752614 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27886-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2021] [Accepted: 12/17/2021] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Measurements of the electronic circular dichroism (CD) are highly sensitive to the absolute configuration and conformation of chiral molecules and supramolecular assemblies and have therefore found widespread application in the chemical and biological sciences. Here, we demonstrate an approach to simultaneously follow changes in the CD and absorption response of photoexcited systems over the ultraviolet-visible spectral range with 100 fs time resolution. We apply the concept to chiral polyfluorene copolymer thin films and track their electronic relaxation in detail. The transient CD signal stems from the supramolecular response of the system and provides information regarding the recovery of the electronic ground state. This allows for a quantification of singlet-singlet annihilation and charge-pair formation processes. Spatial mapping of chiral domains on femtosecond time scales with a resolution of 50 μm and diffraction-limited steady-state imaging of the circular dichroism and the circularly polarised luminescence (CPL) of the films is demonstrated.
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- Marius Morgenroth
- Department Chemistry and Biology, Physical Chemistry 2, Faculty IV: School of Science and Technology, University of Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2, 57068, Siegen, Germany
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- Department Chemistry and Biology, Physical Chemistry 2, Faculty IV: School of Science and Technology, University of Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2, 57068, Siegen, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Research Institute for Natural Sciences, Korea University, 145 Anam-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Research Institute for Natural Sciences, Korea University, 145 Anam-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Department Chemistry and Biology, Physical Chemistry 2, Faculty IV: School of Science and Technology, University of Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2, 57068, Siegen, Germany.
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- Department Chemistry and Biology, Physical Chemistry 2, Faculty IV: School of Science and Technology, University of Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2, 57068, Siegen, Germany.
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Otis G, Benyamin M, Mastai Y, Zalevsky Z. Photoacoustic measurement of localized optical dichroism in chiral crystals. Chem Commun (Camb) 2021; 58:84-87. [PMID: 34870648 DOI: 10.1039/d1cc05961k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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In this communication, we present a novel method to measure local optical dichroism (OD) in opaque crystal powder suspensions using photoacoustic (PA) effect. Our method is based upon the novel laser speckle contrast technique, in combination with a simple statistical approach, we were able to measure the OD of chiral crystals suspensions under completely random orientation.
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- Gil Otis
- Department of Chemistry and the Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel
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- Faculty of Engineering and the Nanotechnology Center, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel
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- Department of Chemistry and the Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel
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- Faculty of Engineering and the Nanotechnology Center, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel
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Valentín-Pérez Á, Rosa P, Hillard EA, Giorgi M. Chirality determination in crystals. Chirality 2021; 34:163-181. [PMID: 34766388 DOI: 10.1002/chir.23377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2021] [Revised: 08/26/2021] [Accepted: 09/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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This tutorial review article discusses chirality determination in the solid state, both in single crystals and in crystal assemblies, with an emphasis on X-ray diffraction. The main principles of using X-ray diffraction to reliably determine absolute structure are summarized, and the complexity which can be encountered in chiral structures-kryptoracemates, scalemates, and inversion twinning-is illustrated with examples from our laboratories and the literature. We then address the problem of the bulk crystallization and discuss different techniques to determine chirality in a large assembly of crystal structures, with a special prominence given to an X-ray natural circular dichroism mapping technique that we recently reported.
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- Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux-INP, ICMCB, UMR 5026, F-33600 Pessac, Cedex, France
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- Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux-INP, ICMCB, UMR 5026, F-33600 Pessac, Cedex, France.,CNRS, Univ. Bordeaux, CRPP, UMR 5031, Pessac, France
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- Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, FSCM, Spectropole, Marseille, France
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Spaeth P, Adhikari S, Baaske MD, Pud S, Ton J, Orrit M. Photothermal Circular Dichroism of Single Nanoparticles Rejecting Linear Dichroism by Dual Modulation. ACS NANO 2021; 15:16277-16285. [PMID: 34550678 PMCID: PMC8552490 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c05374] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Circular dichroism (CD) is the property of chiral nanoobjects to absorb circularly polarized light of either handedness to different extents. Photothermal microscopy enables the detection of CD signals with high sensitivity and provides a direct absorptive response of the samples under study. To achieve CD measurements at the single-particle level, one must reduce such artifacts as leakage of linear dichroism (LD) and residual intensity modulation. We have simulated our setup with a simple model, which allows us to tune modulation parameters to obtain a CD signal virtually free from artifacts. We demonstrate the sensitivity of our setup by measuring the very weak inherent CD signals of single gold nanospheres. We furthermore demonstrate that our method can be extended to obtain spectra of the full absorptive properties of single nanoparticles, including isotropic absorption, linear dichroism, and circular dichroism. We then investigate nominally achiral gold nanoparticles immersed in a chiral liquid. Carefully taking into account the intrinsic chirality of the particles and its change due to heat-induced reshaping, we find that the chiral liquid carvone surrounding the particle has no measurable effect on the particles' chirality, down to g-factors of 3 × 10-4.
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- Patrick Spaeth
- Huygens-Kamerlingh
Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University, Leiden, 2300 Rapenburg, Netherlands
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- Huygens-Kamerlingh
Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University, Leiden, 2300 Rapenburg, Netherlands
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- Huygens-Kamerlingh
Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University, Leiden, 2300 Rapenburg, Netherlands
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- Huygens-Kamerlingh
Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University, Leiden, 2300 Rapenburg, Netherlands
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- Huygens-Kamerlingh
Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University, Leiden, 2300 Rapenburg, Netherlands
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- Huygens-Kamerlingh
Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University, Leiden, 2300 Rapenburg, Netherlands
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Ghosh S, Herink G, Perri A, Preda F, Manzoni C, Polli D, Cerullo G. Broadband Optical Activity Spectroscopy with Interferometric Fourier-Transform Balanced Detection. ACS PHOTONICS 2021; 8:2234-2242. [PMID: 34476287 PMCID: PMC8377715 DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.0c01866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2020] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Spectrally resolved measurements of optical activity, such as circular dichroism (CD) and optical rotatory dispersion (ORD), are powerful tools to study chiroptical properties of (bio)molecular and nanoplasmonic systems. The wider utilization of these techniques, however, has been impeded by the bulky and slow design of conventional spectropolarimeters, which have been limited to a narrowband scanning approach for more than 50 years. In this work, we demonstrate broadband measurements of optical activity by combining a balanced detection scheme with interferometric Fourier-transform spectroscopy. The setup utilizes a linearly polarized light field that creates an orthogonally polarized weak chiral free-induction-decay field, along with a phase-locked achiral transmitted signal, which serves as the local oscillator for heterodyne amplification. By scanning the delay between the two fields with a birefringent common-path interferometer and recording their interferogram with a balanced detector that measures polarization rotation, broadband CD and ORD spectra are retrieved simultaneously with a Fourier transform. Using an incoherent thermal light source, we achieve state-of-the-art sensitivity for CD and ORD across a broad wavelength range in a remarkably simple setup. We further demonstrate the potential of our technique for highly sensitive measurements of glucose concentration and the real-time monitoring of ground-state chemical reactions. The setup also accepts broadband pulses and will be suitable for broadband transient optical activity spectroscopy and broadband optical activity imaging.
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- Soumen Ghosh
- Dipartimento
di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy
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- Experimental
Physics VIII, University of Bayreuth, D-95447 Bayreuth, Germany
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- Dipartimento
di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy
- NIREOS
S.R.L., Via G. Durando
39, 20158 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy
- NIREOS
S.R.L., Via G. Durando
39, 20158 Milano, Italy
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- Istituto
di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie (IFN)−CNR, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy
- NIREOS
S.R.L., Via G. Durando
39, 20158 Milano, Italy
- Istituto
di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie (IFN)−CNR, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy
- NIREOS
S.R.L., Via G. Durando
39, 20158 Milano, Italy
- Istituto
di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie (IFN)−CNR, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy
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Matoba S, Kanzaki C, Yamashita K, Kusukawa T, Fukuhara G, Okada T, Narushima T, Okamoto H, Numata M. Directional Supramolecular Polymerization in a Dynamic Microsolution: A Linearly Moving Polymer's End Striking Monomers. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:8731-8746. [PMID: 34060820 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c02644] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Although directional chain reactions are common in nature's self-assembly processes and in covalent polymerizations, it has been challenging to perform such processes in artificial one-dimensional self-assembling systems. In this paper, we describe a system, employing perylene bisimide (PBI) derivatives as monomers, for selectively activating one end of a supramolecular polymer during its growth and, thereby, realizing directional supramolecular polymerization. Upon introduction of a solution containing only a single PBI monomer into the microflow channel, nucleation was induced spontaneously. The dependency of the aggregation efficiency on the flow rate suggested that the shear force facilitated collisions among the monomers to overcome the activation energy required for nucleation. Next, by introducing a solution containing both monomer and polymer, we investigated how the shear force influenced the monomer-polymer interactions. In situ fluorescence spectra and linear dichroism revealed that growth of the polymers was accelerated only when they were oriented under the influence of shear stress. Upon linear motion of the oriented polymer, polymer growth at that single end became predominant relative to the nucleation of freely diffusing monomers. When applying this strategy to a two-monomer system, the second (less active) monomer reacted selectively at the forward-facing terminus of the first polymer, leading to the creation of a diblock copolymer through formation of a molecular heterojunction. This strategy-friction-induced activation of a single end of a polymer-should be applicable more generally to directional supramolecular block copolymerizations of various functional molecules, allowing molecular heterojunctions to be made at desired positions in a polymer.
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- Shota Matoba
- Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University, Shimogamo, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8522, Japan
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- Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University, Shimogamo, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8522, Japan
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- Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University, Shimogamo, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8522, Japan
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- Faculty of Molecular Chemistry and Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan.,JST, PRESTO, 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
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- Institute for Molecular Science and The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai), 38 Nishigonaka, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585, Japan
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- Institute for Molecular Science and The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai), 38 Nishigonaka, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585, Japan
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- Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University, Shimogamo, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8522, Japan
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Gogoi A, Konwer S, Zhuo GY. Polarimetric Measurements of Surface Chirality Based on Linear and Nonlinear Light Scattering. Front Chem 2021; 8:611833. [PMID: 33644001 PMCID: PMC7902787 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2020.611833] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2020] [Accepted: 12/31/2020] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
Abstract
A molecule, molecular aggregate, or protein that cannot be superimposed on its mirror image presents chirality. Most living systems are organized by chiral building blocks, such as amino acids, peptides, and carbohydrates, and any change in their molecular structure (i.e., handedness or helicity) alters the biochemical and pharmacological functions of the molecules, many of which take place at surfaces. Therefore, studying surface chirogenesis at the nanoscale is fundamentally important and derives various applications. For example, since proteins contain highly ordered secondary structures, the intrinsic chirality can be served as a signature to measure the dynamics of protein adsorption and protein conformational changes at biological surfaces. Furthermore, a better understanding of chiral recognition and separation at bio-nanointerfaces is helpful to standardize chiral drugs and monitor the synthesis of adsorbents with high precision. Thus, exploring the changes in surface chirality with polarized excitations would provide structural and biochemical information of the adsorbed molecules, which has led to the development of label-free and noninvasive measurement tools based on linear and nonlinear optical effects. In this review, the principles and selected applications of linear and nonlinear optical methods for quantifying surface chirality are introduced and compared, aiming to conceptualize new ideas to address critical issues in surface biochemistry.
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- Ankur Gogoi
- Department of Physics, Jagannath Barooah College, Jorhat, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh, India
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- Institute of New Drug Development, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.,Integrative Stem Cell Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
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Kanzaki C, Matoba S, Inagawa A, Fukuhara G, Okada T, Narushima T, Okamoto H, Numata M. Linear Momentum of a Microfluid Realizes an Anisotropic Reaction at the Ends of a Supramolecular Nanofiber. BULLETIN OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN 2021. [DOI: 10.1246/bcsj.20200279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Chisako Kanzaki
- Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University, Shimogamo, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8522, Japan
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- Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University, Shimogamo, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8522, Japan
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- Graduate School of Regional Development and Creativity, Utsunomiya University, Utsunomiya, Tochigi 321-8585, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
- JST, PRESTO, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
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- Institute for Molecular Science and The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai), 38 Nishigonaka, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585, Japan
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- Institute for Molecular Science and The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai), 38 Nishigonaka, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585, Japan
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- Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University, Shimogamo, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8522, Japan
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Review on Complete Mueller Matrix Optical Scanning Microscopy Imaging. APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/app11041632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Optical scanning microscopy techniques based on the polarization control of the light have the capability of providing non invasive label-free contrast. By comparing the polarization states of the excitation light with its transformation after interaction with the sample, the full optical properties can be summarized in a single 4×4 Mueller matrix. The main challenge of such a technique is to encode and decode the polarized light in an optimal way pixel-by-pixel and take into account the polarimetric artifacts from the optical devices composing the instrument in a rigorous calibration step. In this review, we describe the different approaches for implementing such a technique into an optical scanning microscope, that requires a high speed rate polarization control. Thus, we explore the recent advances in term of technology from the industrial to the medical applications.
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Resonance in Chirogenesis and Photochirogenesis: Colloidal Polymers Meet Chiral Optofluidics. Symmetry (Basel) 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/sym13020199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Metastable colloids made of crystalline and/or non-crystalline matters render abilities of photonic resonators susceptible to chiral chemical and circularly polarized light sources. By assuming that μm-size colloids and co-colloids consisting of π- and/or σ-conjugated polymers dispersed into an optofluidic medium are artificial models of open-flow, non-equilibrium coacervates, we showcase experimentally resonance effects in chirogenesis and photochirogenesis, revealed by gigantic boosted chiroptical signals as circular dichroism (CD), optical rotation dispersion, circularly polarized luminescence (CPL), and CPL excitation (CPLE) spectral datasets. The resonance in chirogenesis occurs at very specific refractive indices (RIs) of the surrounding medium. The chirogenesis is susceptible to the nature of the optically active optofluidic medium. Moreover, upon an excitation-wavelength-dependent circularly polarized (CP) light source, a fully controlled absolute photochirogenesis, which includes all chiroptical generation, inversion, erase, switching, and short-/long-lived memories, is possible when the colloidal non-photochromic and photochromic polymers are dispersed in an achiral optofluidic medium with a tuned RI. The hand of the CP light source is not a determining factor for the product chirality. These results are associated with my experience concerning amphiphilic polymerizable colloids, in which, four decades ago, allowed proposing a perspective that colloids are connectable to light, polymers, helix, coacervates, and panspermia hypotheses, nuclear physics, biology, radioisotopes, homochirality question, first life, and cosmology.
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Adhikari S, Spaeth P, Kar A, Baaske MD, Khatua S, Orrit M. Photothermal Microscopy: Imaging the Optical Absorption of Single Nanoparticles and Single Molecules. ACS NANO 2020; 14:16414-16445. [PMID: 33216527 PMCID: PMC7760091 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c07638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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The photothermal (PT) signal arises from slight changes of the index of refraction in a sample due to absorption of a heating light beam. Refractive index changes are measured with a second probing beam, usually of a different color. In the past two decades, this all-optical detection method has reached the sensitivity of single particles and single molecules, which gave birth to original applications in material science and biology. PT microscopy enables shot-noise-limited detection of individual nanoabsorbers among strong scatterers and circumvents many of the limitations of fluorescence-based detection. This review describes the theoretical basis of PT microscopy, the methodological developments that improved its sensitivity toward single-nanoparticle and single-molecule imaging, and a vast number of applications to single-nanoparticle imaging and tracking in material science and in cellular biology.
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- Subhasis Adhikari
- Huygens−Kamerlingh
Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Huygens−Kamerlingh
Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Chemistry
Discipline, Indian Institute of Technology
Gandhinagar, Palaj, Gujrat 382355, India
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- Huygens−Kamerlingh
Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Chemistry
Discipline, Indian Institute of Technology
Gandhinagar, Palaj, Gujrat 382355, India
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- Huygens−Kamerlingh
Onnes Laboratory, Leiden University, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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Szustakiewicz P, Kowalska N, Grzelak D, Narushima T, Góra M, Bagiński M, Pociecha D, Okamoto H, Liz-Marzán LM, Lewandowski W. Supramolecular Chirality Synchronization in Thin Films of Plasmonic Nanocomposites. ACS NANO 2020; 14:12918-12928. [PMID: 32886482 PMCID: PMC7596782 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c03964] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Mirror symmetry breaking in materials is a fascinating phenomenon that has practical implications for various optoelectronic technologies. Chiral plasmonic materials are particularly appealing due to their strong and specific interactions with light. In this work we broaden the portfolio of available strategies toward the preparation of chiral plasmonic assemblies, by applying the principles of chirality synchronization-a phenomenon known for small molecules, which results in the formation of chiral domains from transiently chiral molecules. We report the controlled cocrystallization of 23 nm gold nanoparticles and liquid crystal molecules yielding domains made of highly ordered, helical nanofibers, preferentially twisted to the right or to the left within each domain. We confirmed that such micrometer sized domains exhibit strong, far-field circular dichroism (CD) signals, even though the bulk material is racemic. We further highlight the potential of the proposed approach to realize chiral plasmonic thin films by using a mechanical chirality discrimination method. Toward this end, we developed a rapid CD imaging technique based on the use of polarized light optical microscopy (POM), which enabled probing the CD signal with micrometer-scale resolution, despite of linear dichroism and birefringence in the sample. The developed methodology allows us to extend intrinsically local effects of chiral synchronization to the macroscopic scale, thereby broadening the available tools for chirality manipulation in chiral plasmonic systems.
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- Piotr Szustakiewicz
- Laboratory
of Organic Nanomaterials and Biomolecules, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 1 Street, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
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- Laboratory
of Organic Nanomaterials and Biomolecules, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 1 Street, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
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- Laboratory
of Organic Nanomaterials and Biomolecules, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 1 Street, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute
for Molecular Science (IMS) and The Graduate University for Advanced
Studies (SOKENDAI), 38
Nishigonaka, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585, Japan
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- Laboratory
of Organic Nanomaterials and Biomolecules, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 1 Street, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
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- Laboratory
of Organic Nanomaterials and Biomolecules, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 1 Street, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
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- Faculty
of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, 101 Żwirki i Wigury, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute
for Molecular Science (IMS) and The Graduate University for Advanced
Studies (SOKENDAI), 38
Nishigonaka, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585, Japan
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- CIC
biomaGUNE, Basque Research and Technology
Alliance (BRTA), Paseo
de Miramón 182, Donostia-San Sebastián 20014, Spain
- Ikerbasque,
Basque Foundation for Science, 48013 Bilbao, Spain
- Centro
de Investigación en Biomédica Red de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Paseo de Miramón 182, Donostia-San Sebastián 20014, Spain
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- Laboratory
of Organic Nanomaterials and Biomolecules, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 1 Street, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
- (W.L.)
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Circular Intensity Differential Scattering for Label-Free Chromatin Characterization: A Review for Optical Microscopy. Polymers (Basel) 2020; 12:polym12102428. [PMID: 33096877 PMCID: PMC7588990 DOI: 10.3390/polym12102428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2020] [Revised: 10/09/2020] [Accepted: 10/16/2020] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Circular Intensity Differential Scattering (CIDS) provides a differential measurement of the circular right and left polarized light and has been proven to be a gold standard label-free technique to study the molecular conformation of complex biopolymers, such as chromatin. In early works, it has been shown that the scattering component of the CIDS signal gives information from the long-range chiral organization on a scale down to 1/10th-1/20th of the excitation wavelength, leading to information related to the structure and orientation of biopolymers in situ at the nanoscale. In this paper, we review the typical methods and technologies employed for measuring this signal coming from complex macro-molecules ordering. Additionally, we include a general description of the experimental architectures employed for spectroscopic CIDS measurements, angular or spectral, and of the most recent advances in the field of optical imaging microscopy, allowing a visualization of the chromatin organization in situ.
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Homochiral Supramolecular Thin Film from Self-Assembly of Achiral Triarylamine Molecules by Circularly Polarized Light. Molecules 2020; 25:molecules25020402. [PMID: 31963685 PMCID: PMC7024168 DOI: 10.3390/molecules25020402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2019] [Revised: 01/12/2020] [Accepted: 01/16/2020] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Here, we report the formation of homochiral supramolecular thin film from achiral molecules, by using circularly polarized light (CPL) only as a chiral source, on the condition that irradiation of CPL does not induce a photochemical change of the achiral molecules. Thin films of self-assembled structures consisting of chiral supramolecular fibrils was obtained from the triarylamine derivatives through evaporation of the self-assembled triarylamine solution. The homochiral supramolecular helices with the desired handedness was achieved by irradiation of circularly polarized visible light during the self-assembly process, and the chiral stability of supramolecular self-assembled product was achieved by photopolymerization of the diacetylene moieties at side chains of the building blocks, with irradiation of circularly polarized ultraviolet light. This work provides a novel methodology for the generation of homochiral supramolecular thin film from the corresponding achiral molecules.
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Extraction of magnetic circular dichroism effects from blended mixture of magnetic linear dichroism signals in the cobalt/Scotch tape system. Sci Rep 2019; 9:17192. [PMID: 31748587 PMCID: PMC6868135 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-53880-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2019] [Accepted: 11/06/2019] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Circular dichroism (CD) signals revealed in some materials may arise from different origins during measurements. Magnetic field dependent CD (MCD) emanating from the spin-polarized band provides direct insight into the spin-spin interband transitions in magnetic materials. On the contrary, natural CD effects which are artefactual signals resulting from the linear polarization (LP) components during the polarization modulation with a photo-elastic modulator in anisotropic polymer systems were usually observed. There is no simple method to reliably distinguish MCD effect due to spin polarized band structures from natural CD effect, which limits our understanding of the magnetic material/polymer hybrid structures. This paper aims to introduce a general strategy of averaging out the magnetic linear dichroism (MLD) contributions due to the anisotropic structure and disentangling MCD signal(s) from natural MCD signal(s). We demonstrate the effectiveness of separating MCD from natural MCD using rotational MCD measurement and presented the results of a sample with Co thin film on polymer Scotch tape (unplasticized polyvinyl chloride) glued on a quartz substrate. We demonstrate that the proposed method can be used as an effective tool in disentangling MCD and natural MCD effects, and it opens prospects to study the magnetic material /polymer hybrid systems.
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Hendrikse SS, Su L, Hogervorst TP, Lafleur RPM, Lou X, van der Marel GA, Codee JDC, Meijer EW. Elucidating the Ordering in Self-Assembled Glycocalyx Mimicking Supramolecular Copolymers in Water. J Am Chem Soc 2019; 141:13877-13886. [PMID: 31387351 PMCID: PMC6733156 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b06607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2019] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Polysaccharides present in the glycocalyx and extracellular matrix are highly important for a multitude of functions. Oligo- and polysaccharides-based biomaterials are being developed to mimic the glycocalyx, but the spatial functionalization of these polysaccharides represents a major challenge. In this paper, a series of benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxamide (BTA) based supramolecular monomers is designed and synthesized with mono- (BTA-β-d-glucose; BTA-Glc and BTA-α-d-mannose; BTA-Man) or disaccharides (BTA-β-d-cellobiose; BTA-Cel) at their periphery or a monosaccharide (BTA-OEG4-α-d-mannose; BTA-OEG4-Man) at the end of a tetraethylene glycol linker. These glycosylated BTAs have been used to generate supramolecular assemblies and it is shown that the nature of the carbohydrate appendage is crucial for the supramolecular (co)polymerization behavior. BTA-Glc and BTA-Man are shown to assemble into micrometers long 1D (bundled) fibers with opposite helicities, whereas BTA-Cel and BTA-OEG4-Man formed small spherical micelles. The latter two monomers are used in a copolymerization approach with BTA-Glc, BTA-Man, or ethylene glycol BTA (BTA-OEG4) to give 1D fibers with BTA-Cel or BTA-OEG4-Man incorporated. Consequently, the carbohydrate appendage influences both the assembly behavior and the internal order. Using this approach it is possible to create 1D-fibers with adjustable saccharide densities exhibiting tailored dynamic exchange profiles. Furthermore, hydrogels with tunable mechanical properties can be achieved, opening up possibilities for the development of multicomponent functional biomaterials.
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- Simone
I. S. Hendrikse
- Institute
for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven
University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Institute
for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven
University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Department
of Bio-organic Synthesis, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Institute
for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven
University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Institute
for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven
University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Department
of Bio-organic Synthesis, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department
of Bio-organic Synthesis, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Institute
for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven
University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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Yamada T, Eguchi T, Wakiyama T, Narushima T, Okamoto H, Kimizuka N. Synthesis of Chiral Labtb and Visualization of Its Enantiomeric Excess by Induced Circular Dichroism Imaging. Chemistry 2019; 25:6698-6702. [PMID: 30945372 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201900329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2019] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Crystalline particles of a microporous, robust, and chiral metal-organic framework (MOF) were synthesized and their enantiomer excess (ee) was visualized for each microparticle by CD imaging. Labtb, a thermally and chemically robust MOF, was employed in this study because it shows a chiral space group. Although Labtb has been obtained as a racemic conglomerate, enantioselective synthesis of Labtb was achieved via a chiral precursor complex consisting of lanthanum and homochiral phenylalanine. Methyl orange (MO) was introduced into the micropores of chiral Labtb, which showed a strong induced CD signal for the absorption band of MO chromophores. High ee of the chiral Labtb was revealed by microscopic CD observation at the particle-level. This result provides a facile way to obtain a robust MOF that has chiral nanospace.
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- Teppei Yamada
- Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Chemistry, and Biochiemistry, Kyushu University, Motooka 744, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan.,Center for Molecular Systems, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.,PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama, 332-0012, Japan
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- Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Chemistry, and Biochiemistry, Kyushu University, Motooka 744, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan
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- Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Chemistry, and Biochiemistry, Kyushu University, Motooka 744, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan
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- PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama, 332-0012, Japan.,Institute for Molecular Science, 38 Nishigonaka, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi, 444-8585, Japan
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- Institute for Molecular Science, 38 Nishigonaka, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi, 444-8585, Japan
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- Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Chemistry, and Biochiemistry, Kyushu University, Motooka 744, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan.,Center for Molecular Systems, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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Vinegrad E, Hananel U, Markovich G, Cheshnovsky O. Determination of Handedness in a Single Chiral Nanocrystal via Circularly Polarized Luminescence. ACS NANO 2019; 13:601-608. [PMID: 30521311 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b07581] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The occurrence of biological homochirality is attributed to symmetry-breaking mechanisms which are still debatable. Studies of symmetry breaking require tools for monitoring the population ratios of individual chiral nano-objects, such as molecules, polymers, or nanocrystals. Moreover, mapping their spatial distributions may elucidate on their symmetry-breaking mechanism. While luminescence is preferred for detecting single particle chirality due to its high signal-to-noise ratio, the typical low optical activity of chromophores limits its applicability. Here, we report on handedness determination of single chiral lanthanide-based luminescent nanocrystals with a total photon count of 2 × 104. Due to the large emission dissymmetry, we could determine the handedness of individual particles using only a single circular polarization component of the emission spectrum, without polarization modulation. A machine learning algorithm, trained to several spectral line shape features, enabled us to determine and spatially map the handedness of individual nanocrystals with high accuracy and speed. This technique may become invaluable in studies of symmetry breaking in chiral materials.
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Merlet E, Moreno K, Tron A, McClenaghan N, Kauffmann B, Ferrand Y, Olivier C. Aromatic oligoamide foldamers as versatile scaffolds for induced circularly polarized luminescence at adjustable wavelengths. Chem Commun (Camb) 2019; 55:9825-9828. [PMID: 31360956 DOI: 10.1039/c9cc04697f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Quinoline oligoamide foldamers appended with non-chiral fluorophores and derivatized with a camphanyl chiral inducer display strong chiroptical properties at tunable wavelengths as proved by CD and CPL spectroscopies. Induced CPL activity with high luminescence dissymmetry factors was observed in the visible range at wavelengths specific to the fluorophores.
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- Eric Merlet
- Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux INP, CBMN, UMR 5248, F-33600, Pessac, France.
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The Casparian strip-one ring to bring cell biology to lignification? Curr Opin Biotechnol 2018; 56:121-129. [PMID: 30502636 DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2018.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2018] [Revised: 10/12/2018] [Accepted: 10/15/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Lignin research has long been motivated by the outstanding importance of wood for human societies. The annual, non-woody Arabidopsis thaliana, has nevertheless contributed greatly to our understanding of lignification, due to its unrivalled genetic resources. Arabidopsis is also great for cell and developmental biology, allowing precise imaging and tracking of cell types. Root endodermis differentiation involves the precise lignification of the Casparian Strip, as an apoplastic barrier; while barrier damage triggers a less localized, compensatory lignification. Transcriptional reprogramming and peptide-induced signalling emerge as promising tools for the study of endodermal lignification. We argue that endodermis lignification is an attractive model complementary to equally powerful, cellular xylem differentiation systems, as it might better represent the restricted - often localized - lignification seen in non-vascular cells.
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Smith KW, Link S, Chang WS. Optical characterization of chiral plasmonic nanostructures. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY C-PHOTOCHEMISTRY REVIEWS 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochemrev.2017.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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