Abstract Chiral inorganic nanostructures have drawn much attention by virtue of their fascinating fundamental physical properties as well as the abundant applications. Over the past two decades, much effort has been paid to chiral inorganic nanostructures and substantial progresses have been achieved from the sample preparation, chirality origination investigation to practical applications. In this review, we summarize and evaluate the recent progresses of the chiral inorganic nanostructures. The sample synthesis approaches as well as experimental & theoretical studies of chirality originations are discussed. In addition, the unique intrinsic chirality caused by the dislocation is also presented in the review. The representative applications of the chiral inorganic nanostructures such as circular polarized light emission, interaction between chiral nanostructures and bio-systems, second harmonic generation, chiral catalysis, chiral assembly, chiral sensing, DNA cleavage etc. are also presented. We end up with discussing the challenges and future prospects of the chiral inorganic nanostructures in the last section. It is envisioned that the chiral inorganic nanostructures may play more and more impactful roles in versatile fields.

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手性无机纳米结构的新特性及应用

摘要 手性无机纳米结构以其迷人的基本物理性质和广泛的应用而备受关注。近二十年来，人们对手性无机纳米结构进行了大量研究，从样品制备、手性起源研究到实际应用都取得了实质性进展。在这篇综述中，我们总结和评估了手性无机纳米结构的最新进展。讨论了样品合成方法以及手性起源的实验和理论研究。此外，该综述还介绍了由位错引起的独特的内在手性。手性无机纳米结构的代表性应用如圆偏振光发射，还介绍了手性纳米结构和生物系统之间的相互作用、二次谐波产生、手性催化、手性组装、手性传感、DNA 裂解等。我们在最后一节讨论了手性无机纳米结构的挑战和未来前景。可以预见，手性无机纳米结构可能会在多种领域发挥越来越重要的作用。