Proceedings of International Conference on Perovskite Thin Film Photovoltaics and Perovskite Photonics and Optoelectronics (NIPHO26)
Publication date: 22nd April 2026
In recent years, chiral materials have garnered significant attention due to their promising applications in optoelectronics, chemical sensing as well as quantum computing [1-3]. The chiral characteristics of both soft materials and inorganic systems offer valuable insights for enhancing their functional integration. Notably, hybrid materials have emerged as a rapidly growing area in materials science, especially in optoelectronics, as they allow fine-tuning of the properties inherent to both soft and inorganic components. Among these, chiral hybrid perovskites have stood out as a particularly compelling class, exhibiting strong circularly polarized emission without the need for costly ferromagnetic materials or extremely low temperatures. Additionally, they demonstrate intriguing chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effects [4]. The chiral source influences specific non-covalent interactions within the scaffold, which in turn modulate the efficiency and expression of chiral properties [5]. Owing to advances in multiscale modeling and simulation, it is now possible to design chiral systems with unprecedented accuracy. In this talk, I will present recent contributions in predicting chiral behavior in chiral hybrid perovskites [6-8] also at high pressure conditions. I will introduce novel chiral design strategies that integrate enhanced sampling simulations with time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) calculations derived from computed free-energy landscapes. This approach accounts for various contributions, such as molecular rotations within the chiral framework that can critically impact the emergence and optimization of chiral properties.
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