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Chiral nanocomposites

Hand-twisting light

Nature Materials volume 15, pages 377–378 (2016)Cite this article

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Macroscopic deformation can induce chirality in initially achiral nanoparticle composites, and reversibly modulate their chiroptical properties.

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  1. Daeyeon Lee is in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA,

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  2. Sang Eon Han is in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA,

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Lee, D., Han, S. Hand-twisting light. Nature Mater 15, 377–378 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4605

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