Helical Perovskite Nanowires with Strong Circularly Polarized Luminescence Self-Assembled from Red-Emitting CsPbI<sub>3</sub> Quantum Dots Following Chiral Ligand Exchange.

Liu, Haochen; Portniagin, Arsenii S; Tang, Bing; Vighnesh, Kunnathodi; Li, Yun; Wu, Ye; Rusanov, Daniil A; Ke, Lingyi et al. · ACS Nano · 2025

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) of chiral perovskite nanocrystals is crucial for applications such as spin-polarized light-emitting diodes and chiral photodetectors. However, the reported luminescence dissymmetry factors are often too low for practical applications; it is also important for CPL wavelengths to cover the red emission range for display applications. Herein, we realized helical perovskite nanowires self-assembled from red-emitting CsPbI<sub>3</sub> quantum dots (QDs) with a strong CPL signal around 640 nm, which was enabled by chiral ligand R-/S-binaphthyl phosphoric acid. The formation of CsPbI<sub>3</sub> nanowires from perovskite QDs occurred by oriented attachment; QDs remaining in solution attached at the surface of the nanowires, forming helical structures. The films produced from these chiral nanowires demonstrate high dissymmetry factors of 1.1 × 10<sup>-2</sup> and 2.3 × 10<sup>-2</sup> for absorption and luminescence, respectively, surpassing many previously reported chiral nanomaterials. We employed multilayer nanowire films as chiral filters, generating left- and right-handed CPL.