Abstract

Inorganic–organic hybrid nanomaterials with chiral and magnetic functions are promising for chiral photonics and enantioselective sensing, as well as for magnetically recoverable adsorbents and catalysts, because they combine the robustness of an inorganic component with the chemical tailorability of an organic one. However, these functions are usually installed through covalent synthesis or in organic solvents, and the resulting nanoscale building blocks are often fragile or metastable. How aqueous, non-covalent processing relates to the nanoscale structure and functional properties of these hybrids remains largely unexplored.