Journal
ACS NANO
Volume 15, Issue 8, Pages 13653-13661Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c04804
Keywords
nanowire assemblies; chiral nanostructures; plasmonics; metasurfaces; circular dichroism
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- IdEx program of the University of Strasbourg [ANR-10-IDEX-02-02]
- China Scholarship Council
- LabEx CSC Chemistry of Complex Systems [10LABX-0026]
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The study demonstrated that nonchiral 1D nano-objects can be assembled into scalable chiral Bouligand nanostructures with controlled mesoscale anisotropy, achieving very high circular dichroism and giant dissymmetry factors. Through Layer-by-Layer assembly and simple macroscopic tools, the chiroptical properties of the chiral multilayer stack were successfully modeled.
Chirality is found at all length scales in nature, and chiral metasurfaces have recently attracted attention due to their exceptional optical properties and their potential applications. Most of these metasurfaces are fabricated by top-down methods or bottom-up approaches that cannot be tuned in terms of structure and composition. By combining grazing incidence spraying of plasmonic nanowires and nanorods and Layer-by-Layer assembly, we show that nonchiral 1D nano-objects can be assembled into scalable chiral Bouligand nanostructures whose mesoscale anisotropy is controlled with simple macroscopic tools. Such multilayer helical assemblies of linearly oriented nanowires and nanorods display very high circular dichroism up to 13 000 mdeg and giant dissymmetry factors up to g approximate to 0.30 over the entire visible and near-infrared range. The chiroptical properties of the chiral multilayer stack are successfully modeled using a transfer matrix formalism based on the experimentally determined properties of each individual layer. The proposed approach can be extended to much more elaborate architectures and gives access to template-free and enantiomerically pure nanocomposites whose structure can be finely tuned through simple design principles.
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