Rational Design of all-inorganic Assemblies with Bright Circularly Polarized luminescence.

Materials with exceptional circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) are important in multi-field applications such as three-dimensional display, anti-counterfeiting, sensing, spin electronics, etc. Although CPL properties have been widely investigated ranging from the traditional chiral organic molecules to the emerging chiral inorganic nanomaterials and their assemblies, a trade-off between the luminescence efficiency (quantum yield, ϕ) and the luminescence dissymmetry factor (g lum ) is always the bottleneck for all the chiral luminescent materials, which hinders their practical application. Herein, we report a new route to overcoming the paradox through rationally assembling quantum nanorods and ultrathin inorganic nanowires into ordered multilayer structures, achieving both high ϕ and g lum . In these assembled structures, the aligned quantum nanorods emit linearly polarized light that is then transformed to CPL by the aligned ultrathin nanowire assemblies with precisely controlled phase retardation. This method is universal and readily extended to versatile one-dimensional nanomaterials, paving the way for the practical applications of CPL active materials. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.