Evidence map›Paper›PMID 28275728›Full record

ArticleScience advances2017

Assembly of mesoscale helices with near-unity enantiomeric excess and light-matter interactions for chiral semiconductors.

Wenchun Feng, Ji-Young Kim, Xinzhi Wang, Heather A Calcaterra, Zhibei Qu, Louisa Meshi, Nicholas A Kotov

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Science advances, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
38citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

38 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Helical Photonic Metamaterials for Encrypted Chiral Holograms.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
    Article
  6. Chirality in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Nanostructures.Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025
    Review
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. Article
  11. Article
  12. Optical dipole-induced anisotropic growth of semiconductors: A facile strategy toward chiral and complex nanostructures.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
    Article
  13. Chiral nanocrystals grown from MoSNature communications · 2022
    Article
  14. Review
  15. Review
  16. Review
  17. Self-assembled inorganic chiral superstructures.Nature reviews. Chemistry · 2022
    Review
  18. Article
  19. Article
  20. Gigantic vortical differential scattering as a monochromatic probe for multiscale chiral structures.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Wenchun FengDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Ji-Young KimDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Xinzhi WangDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Heather A CalcaterraDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Zhibei QuDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Louisa MeshiDepartment of Materials Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Nicholas A KotovDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.; Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Semiconductors with chiral geometries at the nanoscale and mesoscale provide a rich materials platform for polarization optics, photocatalysis, and biomimetics. Unlike metallic and organic optical materials, the relationship between the geometry of chiral semiconductors and their chiroptical properties remains, however, vague. Homochiral ensembles of semiconductor helices with defined geometries open the road to understanding complex relationships between geometrical parameters and chiroptical properties of semiconductor materials. We show that semiconductor helices can be prepared with an absolute yield of

Indexed as

cadmium telluridechiralcircular dichroismcysteineenantiomeric excessgeometryhelixNanoparticleself-assemblysemiconductor

Identifiers

PMID28275728
PMCPMC5332156

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.