Light-driven ultrafast chirality

Molecular chirality is at the heart of a variety of technological developments including circularly polarized OLED, chiroptical switches, spintronic devices and molecular machines.

In order to gain insights on the underlying ultrafast mechanisms that dictate chiral interactions, we develop schemes to investigate in real-time electron dynamics in chiral molecules, with the ultimate goal of exploiting chiral charge migration for manipulating the outcome of ultrafast enantio-sensitive processes through charge-directed reactivity.

Reference: V. Wanie et al., "Ultrafast chiroptical switching in UV-excited molecules", arXiv:2301.02002, January 2023.