Chirality at the nanoscale. (IMAGE)

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Chirality at the nanoscale.

Caption

a, Chirality at various hierarchical scales. b, Chiral nanomaterials with intrinsic chirality prepared by enantioselective synthesis. c, Chiral nanomaterials based on different soft templates (left-to-right): DNA-, peptide-, and chiral gelator-directed self-assembly of achiral nanoparticles. d, Chiral liquid crystalline nanoarchitecture observed in beetles and biomimetic system. (Left) Atomic force microscopy image of the beetle exoskeleton. (Middle) Beetle exoskeletons under left- and right-handed circularly polarized light. (Right) Scanning electron microscope image showing the self-assembly of platinum nanoparticles around the fingerprint of a cholesteric liquid-crystalline template.

Credit

by Xuan Zhang, Yiyi Xu, Cristian Valenzuela, Xin Fang Zhang, Ling Wang, Wei Feng, and Quan Li

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