Efficient and reversible chirality induction between protein and achiral plasmonic assemblies

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Beitragende

  • Ziwei Zhou - , Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden (Autor:in)
  • Ningwei Sun - , Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden (Autor:in)
  • Nina Tverdokhleb - , Dresden Center for Computational Materials Science (DCMS), Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden (Autor:in)
  • Artur Movsesyan - , University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) (Autor:in)
  • Anja Maria Steiner - , Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden (Autor:in)
  • Patrick T. Probst - , Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden, Kobe University (Autor:in)
  • Vaibhav Gupta - , Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden (Autor:in)
  • Bo Yin - , Synopsys Inc. (Autor:in)
  • Nicolás Pazos-Peréz - , Universidad Rovira i Virgili (Autor:in)
  • Ramón A. Álvarez-Puebla - , Universidad Rovira i Virgili, ICREA - Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (Autor:in)
  • Mirjam Taube - , Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden (Autor:in)
  • Martin Müller - , Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden (Autor:in)
  • Holger Merlitz - , Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden (Autor:in)
  • Olga Guskova - , Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden (Autor:in)
  • Yaroslava G. Yingling - , North Carolina State University (Autor:in)
  • Franziska S.C. Lissel - , Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden, Technische Universität Hamburg (Autor:in)
  • Tobias A.F. König - , Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden (Autor:in)
  • Zhiming Wang - , University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (Autor:in)
  • Alexander O. Govorov - , Ohio University (Autor:in)
  • Nicholas A. Kotov - , University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Autor:in)
  • Andreas Fery - , Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed), Professur für Physikalische Chemie polymerer Materialien (gB/IPF) (PC5), Exzellenzcluster REC²: Responsible Electronics in the Climate-Change Era, Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden (Autor:in)

Abstract

Chiral molecules in nature usually show optical activity only in the deep ultraviolet, whereas artificial chiral plasmonic nanostructures can generate much stronger responses at visible and near-infrared wavelengths. An important challenge is whether the abundant biomolecular chirality in nature can be directly transferred to achiral plasmonic systems without elaborate three-dimensional nanofabrication. Here we show that the mechanical stretching of protein molecules anchored within achiral gold nanoparticle assemblies strongly enhances and reversibly modulates plasmon-coupled circular dichroism. Stretching amplifies the chiroptical response to an ellipticity of 1.18° and a dissymmetry factor of 0.2, far exceeding conventional hotspot-based strategies. Repeated stretching and relaxation further enable reversible switching over more than 100 cycles. Simulations and in situ spectroscopy indicate that the deformation of protein changes its conformation and dipole alignment, thereby strengthening the plasmonic chiral response. These findings establish a route to achieve dynamically controllable chiroptical activity in achiral plasmonic assemblies, revealing how small biomolecular deformations can strongly influence plasmonic responses of much larger nanostructures.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
FachzeitschriftNature materials
PublikationsstatusElektronische Veröffentlichung vor Drucklegung - 15 Apr. 2026
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Externe IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-2335-0260/work/213150085