Precise Detection, Control and Synthesis of Chiral Compounds at Single-Molecule Resolution

Chen Yang; Weilin Hu; Xuefeng Guo

doi:10.1007/s40820-023-01184-5

Nano-Micro Letters, Volume. 15, Issue 1, 211(2023)

Precise Detection, Control and Synthesis of Chiral Compounds at Single-Molecule Resolution

Chen Yang1,†... Weilin Hu1,†, and Xuefeng Guo12,* |Show fewer author(s)

¹Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, National Biomedical Imaging Center, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, 292 Chengfu Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China

²Center of Single-Molecule Sciences, Institute of Modern Optics, Frontiers Science Center for New Organic Matter, College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering, Nankai University, 38 Tongyan Road, Jinnan District, Tianjin 300350, People’s Republic of China

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Received: May. 23, 2023

Accepted: Aug. 10, 2023

Published Online: Dec. 15, 2023

The Author Email: Guo Xuefeng (guoxf@pku.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1007/s40820-023-01184-5

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