Multimodal deep-learning optimization of chiroptical properties in all-inorganic perovskite-coated TiO2 nanohelices and inverse-design transfer to organic chiral luminophores

H Haifeng Sun Y Yilun Zhang X Xiao Chen W Wentao Wang (College of Pharmaceutical Sciences) G Guang-Jie Xia Z Zhifeng Huang (National Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Key Materials of New Energy Storage Battery, Human Province Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion, Key Laboratory of Environmentally Friend Chemistry and Applications of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry)

Abstract

Abstract Circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) has been catching increasing attention for developing advanced photonic displays, quantum communication, bioimaging, and chiral sensing. All-inorganic chiral luminophores are superior to their organic or organic-inorganic hybrid counterparts in thermal stability, environmental robustness and device compatibility, but limited by the difficulty in fabrication and low luminescence dissymmetry factor ( g lum  < 0.1), whereby g lum is generally applied to evaluate the purity of circular polarization of CPL. Herein, chiral TiO 2 nanohelices (NHs) act as chiral templates that are conformally coated with achiral perovskite luminophores composed of cesium lead bromides, to form all-inorganic chiral core@shell nano-luminophores. Chirality transmission from TiO 2 NHs to perovskites accounts for the generation of CPL. Given by the complex and multifactorial experimental conditions, the manual engineering of fabrication procedure leads to an optimized g lum  = 0.2. To further optimize g lum , we develop OptiCPL, a few-shot multimodal deep-learning framework that integrates spectral and morphological features, to boost g lum from 0.20 to 0.35 through model prediction and experimental validation. In addition, the OptiCPL model is transferrable to polymer F8BT-based chiral organic luminophores, achieving g lum  = 0.87. This work establishes a synergistic chiral core@shell approach and offers a transferable deep-learning framework for designing high- g lum CPL materials.

Article Details

Volume / Issue Vol. 17, Issue 1
Published June 04, 2026
ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher Nature Portfolio

Journal Info

Nature Communications

Nature Portfolio

ISSN: 2041-1723 Open Access Life Sciences

Authors (6)

H

Haifeng Sun

Y

Yilun Zhang

X

Xiao Chen

W

Wentao Wang

College of Pharmaceutical Sciences

G

Guang-Jie Xia

Z

Zhifeng Huang

National Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Key Materials of New Energy Storage Battery, Human Province Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion, Key Laboratory of Environmentally Friend Chemistry and Applications of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry