Endowing Perovskite Nanocrystals with Circularly Polarized Luminescence

Perovskite nanocrystals are attracting great interest due to their excellent photonic properties. Here, through a supramolecular self-assembly approach, the perovskite nanocrystals (NCs) with a novel circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) are successfully endowed. It is found that the achiral perovskite NCs can coassemble with chiral gelator in nonpolar solvents, in which the gelator molecules modify the surface of the perovskite NCs. Through such cogelation, the molecular chirality can transfer to the NCs resulting in CPL signals with a dissymmetric factor (g_lum ) up to 10^-3 . Furthermore, depending on the molecular chirality of the gelator, the CPL sense can be selected and the mirror-imaged CPL is obtained. Such gels can be further embedded into the polymer film to facilitate flexible CPL devices. It is envisaged that this approach will afford a new insight into the designing of the functional chiroptical materials.