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Induced circularly polarized luminescence of perovskite nanocrystals by self-assembly chiral gel

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Perovskites nanocrystals (NCs) with circularly polarized light (CPL) activity have drawn much attention due to the fascinating photoelectric properties of perovskite NCs as well as the abundant applications of CPL in three-dimensional (3D) displays, nonlinear optics, spintronics devices, CPL lasers, and so on. Herein, bio-inspired by life, we designed and synthesized a simple amphiphilic molecule which could self-assemble into chiral gel with helix chirality in non-polar solvents. Through co-assembly of the CsPbX3 NCs with the chiral gel, CPL at the first excitation band of CsPbX3 NCs is induced in the whole visible spectrum with a maximum glum of 8.2 × 10−3. The induced CPL arises from the selective CPL-absorption of the CsPbX3 NCs’ luminesce by the chiral gel, which provides a facile and practical approach to induce CPL in perovskite NCs and other nanocrystals.

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Acknowledgements

We acknowledge Prof. Zhiyong Tang for help with CPL measurement. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21976131 and 21922409).

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  1. Rui Cao and Xuekang Yang contributed equally to this work.

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  1. School of Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300350, China

    Rui Cao & Yong Wang

  2. School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300350, China

    Rui Cao & Yin Xiao

  3. National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, 100190, China

    Xuekang Yang

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Cao, R., Yang, X., Wang, Y. et al. Induced circularly polarized luminescence of perovskite nanocrystals by self-assembly chiral gel. Nano Res. 16, 1459–1464 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-4652-4

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