Universal Chiral-Plasmon-Induced Upward and Downward Transfer of Circular Dichroism to Achiral Molecules.
Pei-Gang ChenHan GaoBing TangWei JinAndrey L RogachDang Yuan LeiPublished in: Nano letters (2024)
Electromagnetic chirality transfer represents an effective means of the nanoscale manipulation of optical chirality. While most of the previous reports have exclusively focused on the circular dichroism (CD) transfer from UV-responsive chiral molecules toward visible-resonant achiral colloidal nanoparticles, here we demonstrate a reverse process in which plasmonic chirality can be transferred to achiral molecules, either upward from visible to UV or downward from visible to near infrared (NIR). By hybridizing achiral UV- or NIR-responsive dye molecules with chiral metal nanoparticles in solution, we observe a chiral-plasmon-induced CD (CPICD) signal at the intrinsically achiral molecular absorption bands. Full-wave electromagnetic modeling reveals that both near-field Coulomb interaction and far-field radiative coupling contribute to the observed CPICD, indicating that the mechanism considered here is universal for different material systems and types of optical resonances. Our study provides a set of design guidelines for broadband nanophotonic chiral sensing from the UV to NIR spectral regime.
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