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ArticleAdvanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)2026

Second-Harmonic Hyper-Mie Optical Activity Enables Closed-Loop Chiral Photochemistry.

Hoyeon Choi, Kody Whisnant, Ben J Olohan, E Petronijevic, G Dan Pantoș, Nicholas A Kotov, Ventsislav K Valev

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Article in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Hoyeon ChoiCentre For Photonics, Department of Physics, University of Bath, Bath, UK.
Kody WhisnantDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Ben J OlohanCentre For Photonics, Department of Physics, University of Bath, Bath, UK.
E PetronijevicSBAI Department, La Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1034-3843
G Dan PantoșDepartment of Chemistry, University of Bath, Bath, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2200-550X
Nicholas A KotovDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Ventsislav K ValevCentre For Photonics, Department of Physics, University of Bath, Bath, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9951-1836

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Center for Complex Particle Systems (COMPASS) #2317423EPSRC iCASE EP/T517495/1EPSRC W524712/1European Research Council via collaborative Synergy 101166855Lock-and-Key Interactions of Proteins and Chiral Nanoparticles #2418861National Science Foundation #2243104UKRI UKRI1462University of Bath, as well as from Leverhulme Trust Research RP-G202-2-344
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Abstract

Photochemistry promises sustainable chemical processing but typically depends on ultraviolet light with limited selectivity and penetration. We report nonlinear chiral photochemistry, where femtosecond infrared pulses are frequency-doubled to both drive and track a transformation of chiral CdTe/CdO nanohelices into CdO nanospheroids. Circularly polarized light induces a controlled oxidation sequence monitored in real time through second-harmonic scattering intensity and chiroptical contrast. As the CdO shell fractures and exposes non-centrosymmetric CdTe, second-harmonic intensity rises twenty-fold, polarization reverses, and characteristic CdTe photoluminescence emerges. These findings are enabled by the experimental observation of the second-harmonic hyper-Mie optical activity effect, which completes a suite of nonlinear chiroptical scattering phenomena predicted over 45 years ago. Our results offer a spatially confined, selective, and temporally-resolved method for material transformation.

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chiralitynonlinear opticsoptical activityphotochemistry

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