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Transformable Plasmonic Helix with Swinging Gold Nanoparticles
Andreas Peil, Pengfei Zhan, Xiaoyang Duan +4
Control over multiple optical elements that can be dynamically rearranged to yield substantial three-dimensional structural transformations is of great importance to realize reconf…
Modulating lipid membrane morphology by dynamic DNA origami networks
Juanjuan Yang, Kevin Jahnke, Ling Xin +11
Membrane morphology and its dynamic adaptation regulate many cellular functions, which are often mediated by membrane proteins. Advances in DNA nanotechnology have enabled the real…
Recent advances in DNA origami-engineered nanomaterials and applications
Pengfei Zhan, Andreas Peil, Qiao Jiang +9
DNA nanotechnology is a unique field, where physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, engineering, and materials science can elegantly converge. Since the original proposal of Nadr…
Electrochemically-controlled metasurfaces with high-contrast switching at visible frequencies
R. Kaissner, J. X. Li, W. Z. Lu +4
Recently in nanophotonics, a rigorous evolution from passive to active metasurfaces has been witnessed. This advancement not only brings forward interesting physical phenomena but…
Synthesized complex-frequency excitation for ultrasensitive molecular sensing
Kebo Zeng, Chenchen Wu, Xiangdong Guo +7
Detecting trace molecules remains a significant challenge. Surface-enhanced infrared absorption (SEIRA) based on plasmonic nanostructures, particularly graphene, has emerged as a p…
Metasurface-Enabled On-Chip Multiplexed Diffractive Neural Networks in the Visible
Xuhao Luo, Yueqiang Hu, Xin Li +4
Replacing electrons with photons is a compelling route towards light-speed, highly parallel, and low-power artificial intelligence computing. Recently, all-optical diffractive neur…
A light-driven three-dimensional plasmonic nanosystem that translates molecular motion into reversible chiroptical function
Anton Kuzyk, Yangyang Yang, Xiaoyang Duan +5
Nature has developed striking light-powered proteins such as bacteriorhodopsin, which can convert light energy into conformational changes for biological functions. Such natural ma…
Reconfigurable Plasmonic Chirality: Fundamentals and Applications
Frank Neubrech, Mario Hentschel, Na Liu
Molecular chirality is a geometric property that is of great importance in chemistry, biology, and medicine. Recently, plasmonic nanostructures that exhibit distinct chiroptical re…
Electrically-controlled digital metasurface device for light projection displays
Jianxiong Li, Ping Yu, Shuang Zhang +1
Light projection displays play an increasingly important role in our modern life. Core projection systems including liquid crystal displays and digital micromirror devices can impo…
Dynamic Actuation of DNA-Assembled Plasmonic Nanostructures in Microfluidic Cell-Sized Compartments
Kerstin Goepfrich, Maximilian J. Urban, Christoph Frey +3
Molecular motor proteins form the basis of cellular dynamics. Recently, notable efforts have led to the creation of their DNA-based mimics, which can carry out complex nanoscale mo…
DNA Nanotechnology Meets Nanophotonics
Na Liu
In the past decades, DNA has been intensely studied and exploited in different research areas of nanoscience and nanotechnology. At first glance, DNA-based nanophotonics seems to d…
Dynamic plasmonic color generation enabled by functional materials
Frank Neubrech, Xiaoyang Duan, Na Liu
Displays are an indispensable medium to visually convey information in our daily life. Although conventional dye-based color displays have been rigorously advanced by world leading…
A plasmonic nanorod that walks on DNA origami
Chao Zhou, Xiaoyang Duan, Na Liu
In nano-optics, a formidable challenge remains in precise transport of a single optical nano-object along a programmed and routed path toward a predefined destination. Molecular mo…
Chiral plasmonics
Mario Hentschel, Martin Schaeferling, Xiaoyang Duan +2
We present a comprehensive overview of chirality and its optical manifestation in plasmonic nanosystems and nanostructures. We discuss top-down fabricated structures that range fro…
Dynamic plasmonic colour display
Xiaoyang Duan, Simon Kamin, Na Liu
Plasmonic colour printing based on engineered metasurfaces has revolutionized colour display science due to its unprecedented subwavelength resolution and high-density optical data…
DNA-Assembled Advanced Plasmonic Architectures
Na Liu, Tim Liedl
The interaction between light and matter can be controlled efficiently by structuring materials at a length scale shorter than the wavelength of interest. With the goal to build op…
DNA nanotechnology for building artificial dynamic systems
Na Liu
A fundamental design rule that nature has developed for biological machines is the intimate correlation between motion and function. One class of biological machines is molecular m…
A rotary plasmonic nanoclock
Ling Xin, Chao Zhou, Xiaoyang Duan +1
One of the fundamental challenges in nanophotonics is to gain full control over nanoscale optical elements. The precise spatiotemporal arrangement determines their interactions and…
Generation of Switchable Singular Beams with Dynamic Metasurfaces
Ping Yu, Jianxiong Li, Xin Li +4
Singular beams have attracted great attention due to their optical properties and broad applications from light manipulation to optical communications. However, there has been a la…
Chiral Plasmonic Nanostructures Enabled by Bottom-Up Approaches
Maximilian J. Urban, Chenqi Shen, Xiang-Tian Kong +5
We present a comprehensive review of recent developments in the field of chiral plasmonics. Significant advances have been made recently in understanding the working principles of…
Magnesium for Dynamic Nanoplasmonics
Xiaoyang Duan, Na Liu
The key component of nanoplasmonics is metals. For a long time, gold and silver have been the metals of choice for constructing plasmonic nanodevices because of their excellent opt…
DNA-assembled nanoarchitectures with multiple components in regulated and coordinated motion
Pengfei Zhan, Maximilian J. Urban, Steffen Both +4
Coordinating functional parts to operate in concert is essential for machinery. In gear trains, meshed gears are compactly interlocked, working together to impose rotation or trans…
DNA-Assembled Multilayer Sliding Nanosystems
Pengfei Zhan, Steffen Both, Thomas Weiss +1
DNA nanotechnology allows for the realization of complex nanoarchitectures in which the spatial arrangements of different constituents and most functions can be enabled by DNA. Whe…
Watching a Single Fluorophore Molecule Walk into a Plasmonic Hotspot
Ling Xin, Mo Lu, Steffen Both +7
Plasmonic nanoantennas allow for enhancing the spontaneous emission, altering the emission polarization, and shaping the radiation pattern of quantum emitters. A critical challenge…