The power to manipulate light has always fascinated people and led to many applications in our daily lives. Finding advanced optically active materials is the key to realizing and enhancing this power. This project will develop a new optically active material at Aalto University, utilizing the combination of the state-of-the-art 2-dimensional nanomaterial and molecular material, which has not been explored so far. The new material will combine the key merits of the existing ones, and also enable scalable and low-cost fabrication without using toxic and rare elements. The project can result in immediate applications e.g. active IR camouflage, dynamic thermal regulation for buildings or individuals, as well as existing devices that need high-performance optically active materials. It will also enable many futurist applications such as photonics memory, optical computing, nonlinear optical devices, structural coloration, and active metasurfaces.

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