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Spin selectivity of chiral mesostructured diamagnetic BiOBr films

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The chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) has been found in the antiferromagnetic and paramagnetic chiral inorganic materials with unpaired electrons, while rarely reported in the spin-paired diamagnetic inorganic materials with spin-pairing energy. Here, we report the CISS in the spin-paired diamagnetic BiOBr endowed with three levels of chiral mesostructures. Chiral mesostructured BiOBr films (CMBFs) were fabricated through a sugar alcohol-induced hydrothermal route. The antipodal CMBFs exhibited chirality-dependent, magnetic field-independent magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) signals, which indicates the existence of spin selectivity. The spin selectivity of CMBFs was speculated to be the result of the competing effect between the externally applied magnetic field and the effective magnetic field arisen from the spin electron motions in chiral potential. The chirality-induced effective magnetic field acts on the magnetic moment of electrons, potentially overcoming the spin-pairing energy and producing opposite energy changes for spin-down and spin-up electrons.

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This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2021YFA1200300), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21931008, 21975184, 21873072, and 21922304,), and the scientific foundation of the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission (Nos. 19JC1410300).

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  1. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Materials Protection and Advanced Materials in Electric Power, Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai, 200090, China

    Kun Ding

  2. School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules, State Key Laboratory of Matrix Composite, Shanghai Key Laboratory for Molecular Engineering of Chiral Drugs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, 200240, China

    Kun Ding, Peizhao Liu & Shunai Che

  3. School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai, 200092, China

    Jing Ai, Hao Chen, Lu Han, Shunai Che & Yingying Duan

  4. Department of Medicinal Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University, 826 Zhangheng Road, Shanghai, 201203, China

    Zhibei Qu

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Ding, K., Ai, J., Chen, H. et al. Spin selectivity of chiral mesostructured diamagnetic BiOBr films. Nano Res. 16, 11444–11449 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-023-5866-9

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