Adaptive Helical Chirality in Supramolecular Microcrystals for Circularly Polarized Lasing
Miaosen Lu, Penghao Li, Xinyu Dong, Zhengjun Jiang, Shizhe Ren, Jiannian Yao, Haiyun Dong, Yong Sheng Zhao, Yong Sheng Zhao
Abstract
Chiral organic molecules offer a promising platform for exploring circularly polarized lasing, which, however, faces a great challenge that the spatial separation of molecular chiral and luminescent centers limits chiroptical activity. Here we develop a helically chiral supramolecular system with completely overlapped chiral and luminescent units for realizing high-performance circularly polarized lasing. Adaptive helical chirality is obtained by incorporating chiral agents into organic microcrystals. Benefiting from the efficient coupling of stimulated emission with the adaptive helical chirality, the supramolecular microcrystals enable high-performance circularly polarized lasing emission with dissymmetry factors up to ~0.7. This work opens up the way to rational design of chiral organic materials for circularly polarized lasing.