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ArticleNature communications2026

Chiral emission from chirotopic nanostructures.

Yawei Wu, Zhenyu Wang, Zihan Wu, Jiahui Xu, Chenlu He, Shuqing He, Ruize Wang, Mingsheng Gao, Qing Zhang, Chaowei Wang and 7 more

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Yawei Wu *Department of Precision Machinery and Precision Instrumentation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.
Zhenyu Wang *Department of Precision Machinery and Precision Instrumentation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.
Zihan Wu *Department of Precision Machinery and Precision Instrumentation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.
Jiahui XuDepartment of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5318-905X
Chenlu HeSchool of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7202-697X
Shuqing HeCollege of Health Science and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen, China.
Ruize WangDepartment of Precision Machinery and Precision Instrumentation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.
Mingsheng GaoSchool of Physics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.
Qing ZhangSchool of Physics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7159-776X
Chaowei WangDepartment of Precision Machinery and Precision Instrumentation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.
Jincheng NiDepartment of Precision Machinery and Precision Instrumentation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9308-4511
Zhipeng LiAnhui Province Key Laboratory of Integrated Circuit Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, People's Republic of China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8139-2522
Yiming WuInstitute of Flexible Electronics (IFE, Future Technologies), Xiang'an Campus, Xiamen University, Xiang'an South Road, Xiamen, Fujian, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1201-5053
Jiaru ChuDepartment of Precision Machinery and Precision Instrumentation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.
Dong WuDepartment of Precision Machinery and Precision Instrumentation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0623-1515
Xiaogang LiuDepartment of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore. chmlx@nus.edu.sg.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2517-5790
Yang ChenDepartment of Precision Machinery and Precision Instrumentation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China. cyang_phys@ustc.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8501-5417

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Abstract

Mirror asymmetry of electronic states or optical media is expected for the emission of chiral photons, which constrains the design of dichroic materials. Here we demonstrate that these symmetry restrictions can be relaxed by harnessing the local chirality of globally achiral materials, also known as chirotopicity. Unlike chirotopic sites in molecules whose optical effects are unknown, photonic nanostructures make possible the enhancement and deliberate localization of left- and right-handed chirotopic fields by linearly polarized light. We show that intense and highly elliptic light is emitted from achiral luminophores engulfed by such fields. Luminescence dissymmetry factors between 1.65 and -1.58, approaching the theoretical limit, are obtained for nanoparticles and dyes, which may be generalized to other luminophores. After being hypothesized by Mislow more than 50 years ago, these findings validate the concept of chirotopicity and enable its utilization in chiral photonics.

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