scholarly journals The Chirality Induction and Modulation of Polymers by Circularly Polarized Light

Symmetry ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guang Yang ◽  
Siyu Zhang ◽  
Jingang Hu ◽  
Michiya Fujiki ◽  
Gang Zou
Keyword(s):  
Synthesis Method ◽  
Polarized Light ◽  
Chiral Structure ◽  
Circularly Polarized Light ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Functional Activities ◽  
Living Organisms ◽  
Asymmetric Polymerization ◽  
Origin Of Homochirality ◽  
Chiral Polymer

Chirality is a natural attribute nature of living matter and plays an important role in maintaining the metabolism, evolution and functional activities of living organisms. Asymmetric conformation represents the chiral structure of biomacromolecules in living organisms on earth, such as the L-amino acids of proteins and enzymes, and the D-sugars of DNA or RNA, which exist preferentially as one enantiomer. Circularly polarized light (CPL), observed in the formation regions of the Orion constellation, has long been proposed as one of the origins of single chirality. Herein, the CPL triggered asymmetric polymerization, photo-modulation of chirality based on polymers are described. The mechanisms between CPL and polymers (including polydiacetylene, azobenzene polymers, chiral coordination polymers, and polyfluorene) are described in detail. This minireview provides a promising flexible asymmetric synthesis method for the fabrication of chiral polymer via CPL irradiation, with the hope of obtaining a better understanding of the origin of homochirality on earth.

Preparation of Chiral Polydiacetylene Films by Using Three-Photon Polymerization

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 3394-3397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takaaki Manaka ◽  
Mitsumasa Iwamoto
Keyword(s):  
Laser Power ◽  
Polarized Light ◽  
Laser Wavelength ◽  
Polymerization Rate ◽  
Power Dependence ◽  
Circularly Polarized Light ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Photo Polymerization ◽  
Left And Right ◽  
Asymmetric Polymerization

Asymmetric polymerization of polydiacetylene (PDA) from commercially available achiral derivative of diacetylene monomer using circularly polarized pulse laser is demonstrated. Chiral source was only circularly polarized laser, and irradiation of left- and right-circularly polarized light effectively promoted the polymerization of chiral PDAs with opposite handedness. Difference between the laser wavelength and the absorption peak of monomer suggested the contribution of the multiphoton excitation to the photo-polymerization. Laser power dependence of the polymerization rate indicated the possibility of three-photon polymerization.

Differential polarization imaging of sickled cells

1988 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 62-63
Author(s):  
Marcos F. Maestre
Keyword(s):  
Optical Properties ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Polarized Light ◽  
Polarization Microscopy ◽  
Spectroscopic Techniques ◽  
Polarization Imaging ◽  
Circularly Polarized Light ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Microscopic Scale ◽  
Chiral Structures

Recently we have developed a form of polarization microscopy that forms images using optical properties that have previously been limited to macroscopic samples. This has given us a new window into the distribution of structure on a microscopic scale. We have coined the name differential polarization microscopy to identify the images obtained that are due to certain polarization dependent effects. Differential polarization microscopy has its origins in various spectroscopic techniques that have been used to study longer range structures in solution as well as solids. The differential scattering of circularly polarized light has been shown to be dependent on the long range chiral order, both theoretically and experimentally. The same theoretical approach was used to show that images due to differential scattering of circularly polarized light will give images dependent on chiral structures. With large helices (greater than the wavelength of light) the pitch and radius of the helix could be measured directly from these images.

Blue Circularly Polarized Luminescent Amorphous Molecules with Single-handed Propeller Chirality Induced by Circularly Polarized Light Irradiation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhaoming Zhang ◽  
Takunori Harada ◽  
Adriana Pietropaolo ◽  
Yuting Wang ◽  
Yue Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Polarized Light ◽  
Light Irradiation ◽  
Circularly Polarized Light ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Trigonal Symmetry ◽  
Circularly Polarized Luminescence ◽  
Polarized Luminescence

Preferred-handed propeller conformation was induced by circularly polarized light irradiation to three amorphous molecules with trigonal symmetry, and the molecules with induced chirality efficiently exhibited blue circularly polarized luminescence. In...

scholarly journals Design and Realization of a Compact Efficient Beam Combiner, Based on Liquid Crystal Pancharatnam–Berry Phase Gratings

Crystals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 220
Author(s):  
Boxuan Gao ◽  
Jeroen Beeckman ◽  
Kristiaan Neyts
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Berry Phase ◽  
Polarized Light ◽  
Laser Beams ◽  
Circularly Polarized Light ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Beam Combiner ◽  
High Diffraction Efficiency ◽  
High Diffraction ◽  
Crystal Mixture

We demonstrate a laser beam combiner based on four photo-patterned Pancharatnam–Berry (PB) phase gratings, which is compact and has high diffraction efficiency for incident circularly polarized light. The nematic liquid crystal mixture E7 is used as anisotropic material, and the thickness of the layer is controlled by spacers. The beam combiner can bring two parallel laser beams closer to each other while remaining parallel. This work shows the potential to realize components based on flat optical LC devices.

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