USTC successfully synthesized a new type of chiral inorganic nanomaterial

Recently, with the participation of the research group of Academician Yu Shuhong from the University of Science and Technology of China, important progress has been made in the synthesis of new chiral inorganic nanomaterials, and a new type of chiral inorganic nanomaterial has been successfully designed and synthesized. The results have been published in Nature Nanotechnology.

It is reported that the development of chiral materials is of great significance in the fields of polarization-dependent photonics and optoelectronics applications. At present, traditional chiral nanomaterials usually have limitations in environmental stability and conductivity, which restricts their practical applications.

The research group of Academician Yu Shuhong of USTC cooperated with the research group of Researcher Tang Zhiyong of the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology and the research group of Professor Edward Sargent of the University of Toronto. The researchers proposed a "double buffer layer design" synthesis strategy to solve the lattice and chemical mismatch problem between traditional semiconductor materials and magnetic materials, and achieved the selective growth of magnetic materials at specific locations of different semiconductors.

It is worth mentioning that the successful development of this new magneto-optical semiconductor nanomaterial makes anisotropic ferromagnetism and spin manipulation at room temperature possible, which is expected to provide a new material platform for spin electronics and quantum computing technology.