Project description
Chiral plasmonic nanocomposites for photonic devices
The scientific community is focused on developing cost-effective organic materials for molecular and photonic devices. Nanophotonic materials are leading the creation of artificial chiral nanocomposites that enhance optical properties for applications such as chiro-optical sensors and circular polarisers. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the GoldHelix project develops chiral plasmonic (CP) nanocomposites by synthesising in-situ plasmonic metal nanoparticles (MNPs) on helical poly(phenylacetylene)s (PPAs) as chiral templates. These helical PPAs can alter their helical sense in response to external stimuli, enabling the production of switchable CP materials with opposite handedness. The resulting hybrid PPAs-MNPs will be formed into thin films to explore their liquid crystalline properties, potentially advancing a range of photonic and molecular devices.
Objective
The scientific community has been highly interested in developing molecular and photonic devices in recent years due to their multiple promising applications with flexible and cost-effective organic materials. Generally, nanophotonic materials are nanocomposites (hybrid materials) having a structural organization with unique geometries of incorporated organic molecules and inorganic metal nanoparticles or metal complexes at nano-dimension. The top-down and bottom-up approaches are adapted to fabricate such materials. Taking inspiration from the inherent chiral aspect of nature, artificial chiral nanocomposites are designed by scientists to manipulate their optical properties. In the fabrication of chiral nanocomposites, the organization and use of chiral objects at nanoscale dimensions are of extreme interest because their resultant chiral structures will have excellent optical activity and chiroptical properties with promising applications such as chiro-optical sensors, circular polarizers and negative refractive index of materials.
In our proposal, we aim to create chiral plasmonic (CP) materials (nanocomposites) by organizing on the surface and creating in-situ plasmonic metal nanoparticles (MNPs) on helical poly(phenylacetylene)s (PPAs) chiral template, respectively. The local surface plasmon resonance characteristics of achiral MNPs will be an advantage for chirality transfer from template to surface plasmons of achiral MNPs. The helical PPAs follow the dynamic helical sense under external stimuli influence, which is controllable. Thus, taking advantage of the tunability of the chiral template, the switchable CP materials will be created having chiroptical properties for an opposite handedness of (P)- and (M)-helix containing plasmonic nanoparticles, unlike most of the natural biomolecules supporting one-handedness of chirality. And the final hybrid PPAs-MNPs (CP materials) will be converted into thin films to study liquid crystalline properties.
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- engineering and technology nanotechnology nano-materials
- engineering and technology materials engineering nanocomposites
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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36310 VIGO PONTEVEDRA
Spain
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