Mie-Resonant Nanophotonic-Enhancement of Asymmetry in Sodium Chlorate Chiral Crystallization.
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- Niinomi H; Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577, Japan.; Gotoh K; Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University, 8050 Ikarashi 2 no-cho, Nishi-ku, Niigata 950-2181, Japan.; Interdisciplinary Research Center for Carbon-Neutral Technologies, Niigata University, 8050 Ikarashi 2 no-cho, Nishi-ku, Niigata City, Niigata 950-2181, Japan.; Takano N; Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577, Japan.; Tagawa M; Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainability (IMaSS), Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8601, Japan.; Morita I; Laboratory for Nanoelectronics and Spintronics, Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-0812, Japan.; Onuma A; Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577, Japan.; Yoshikawa HY; Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.; Kawamura R; Department of Chemistry, Saitama University, Shimo-okubo 255, Sakura-ku, Saitama 338-8570, Japan.; Oshikiri T; Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577, Japan.; Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Kita-21, Nishi-10, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0021, Japan.; Nakagawa M; Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577, Japan.
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- Publisher: American Chemical Society Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 101526034 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1948-7185 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 19487185 NLM ISO Abbreviation: J Phys Chem Lett Subsets: PubMed not MEDLINE; MEDLINE
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Studies on chiral spectroscopy have recently demonstrated strong enhancement of chiral light-matter interaction in the chiral near-field of Mie resonance in high-refractive-index dielectric nanostructures by studies on chiral spectroscopy. This situation has motivated researchers to demonstrate effective chiral photosynthesis under a chiral near-field beyond circularly polarized light (CPL) as a chiral source. However, the effectivity of the chiral near-field of Mie resonance for chiral photosynthesis has not been clearly demonstrated. One major challenge is the experimental difficulty in evaluating enantiomeric excess of a trace amount of chiral products synthesized in the near-field. Here, by adopting sodium chlorate chiral crystallization as a phenomenon that includes both synthesis and the amplification of chiral products, we show that crystallization on a Mie-resonant silicon metasurface excited by CPL yields a statistically significant large crystal enantiomeric excess of ∼18%, which cannot be achieved merely by CPL. This result provides implications for efficient chiral photosynthesis in a chiral near-field.