Interfacial self-assembly of a chiral pyrene exciplex into a superhelix with enhanced circularly polarized luminescence

Abstract

We found that the interfacially confined self-assembly of pyrene and phenanthrene glutamides can form strong exciplexes and amorphous superhelices, which show intensity-enhanced and sign-inverted CPL activity with improved quantum yield compared to a pyrene excimer. This work unveils the predominant role of supramolecular nanostructures over molecular configurations on CPL performance.