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Nano Research 2022, 15(10): 9447-9453 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-4520-2
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Chirally assembled plasmonic metamolecules from intrinsically chiral nanoparticles

Show Author's Information Jiahao Pan1,2,  Xiaoyao Wang1,2,  Jinjin Zhang2,3,  Qin Zhang2,4,  Qiangbin Wang1,2,5,  Chao Zhou1,2( )
School of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
CAS Key Laboratory of Nano-Bio Interface, Suzhou Key Laboratory of Functional Molecular Imaging Technology, Division of Nanobiomedicine and i-lab, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou 215123, China
Nano Science and Technology Institute, University of Science and Technology of China, Suzhou 215123, China
Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Thin Films, School of Physical Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China
College of Materials Sciences and Opto-Electronic Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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gold nanoparticle, plasmonic circular dichroism, DNA origami, chiral plasmonics
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Significant chiroptical responses could be generated by chiral coupling of achiral plasmonic nanoparticles, or originated from intrinsically chiral plasmonic nanoparticles. Here we create dimeric plasmonic metamolecules possessing both chiral coupling between nanoparticles and intrinsic chiroptical responses derived from nanoparticles themselves. These plasmonic metamolecules are prepared by assembling helical plasmonic nanorods (HPNRs) with intrinsic chirality in chiral manners on DNA origami template. Two HPNRs with the same or opposite chirality, or one HPNR and one achiral gold nanorod, are coupled chirally into dimeric metamolecules with intriguing plasmonic circular dichroism (PCD). We found that both of the intrinsic chirality of constituent HPNRs and the chiral coupling contribute to the overall PCD while their weights are different in different metamolecules and vary in different wavelength range for a certain metamolecule. Comparing to conventional chiral plasmonic metamolecules from achiral nanoparticles, or discrete chiral nanoparticles, these metamolecules bring more dimensions for tailoring chiroptical responses and make it more flexible to design plasmonic nanodevices with custom PCD.


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Chirally assembled plasmonic metamolecules from intrinsically chiral nanoparticles

Show Author's information Jiahao Pan1,2, Xiaoyao Wang1,2, Jinjin Zhang2,3, Qin Zhang2,4, Qiangbin Wang1,2,5, Chao Zhou1,2( )
School of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
CAS Key Laboratory of Nano-Bio Interface, Suzhou Key Laboratory of Functional Molecular Imaging Technology, Division of Nanobiomedicine and i-lab, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou 215123, China
Nano Science and Technology Institute, University of Science and Technology of China, Suzhou 215123, China
Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Thin Films, School of Physical Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China
College of Materials Sciences and Opto-Electronic Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

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Significant chiroptical responses could be generated by chiral coupling of achiral plasmonic nanoparticles, or originated from intrinsically chiral plasmonic nanoparticles. Here we create dimeric plasmonic metamolecules possessing both chiral coupling between nanoparticles and intrinsic chiroptical responses derived from nanoparticles themselves. These plasmonic metamolecules are prepared by assembling helical plasmonic nanorods (HPNRs) with intrinsic chirality in chiral manners on DNA origami template. Two HPNRs with the same or opposite chirality, or one HPNR and one achiral gold nanorod, are coupled chirally into dimeric metamolecules with intriguing plasmonic circular dichroism (PCD). We found that both of the intrinsic chirality of constituent HPNRs and the chiral coupling contribute to the overall PCD while their weights are different in different metamolecules and vary in different wavelength range for a certain metamolecule. Comparing to conventional chiral plasmonic metamolecules from achiral nanoparticles, or discrete chiral nanoparticles, these metamolecules bring more dimensions for tailoring chiroptical responses and make it more flexible to design plasmonic nanodevices with custom PCD.

Keywords: gold nanoparticle, plasmonic circular dichroism, DNA origami, chiral plasmonics

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Received: 22 April 2022
Revised: 09 May 2022
Accepted: 09 May 2022
Published: 26 July 2022
Issue date: October 2022

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21977112, and 21934007), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (No. BK20190227), the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. XDB36000000) and the Science and Technology Project of Suzhou (No. SZS201904).

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