TORNADO Project

Multiscale, multidimensional approach to chiral light-matter
interactions for enhanced chiroptical responses

Coordinators

CNRS Aquitaine Delegation

Keywords

Summary

TORNADO is an interdisciplinary project combining chemistry, materials science, nanophotonics, optics, and spectroscopy. We aim to understand and control chiral light-matter interactions with potential spin-offs in optoelectronics, asymmetric synthesis, and quantum information processing. The study of chirality at different spatial and temporal scales will enable us to elucidate its role in electronic, photonic, and vibrational dynamics in a variety of systems such as free molecules, supramolecular assemblies, chiral nano-objects, liquid and solid crystals, plasmonic resonators, metasurfaces, and photonic crystals.

Scientific expectations

Consortium


CBMN • Bordeaux
Chimie & Biologie des Membranes & des Nano-objets
Sylvain Nlate, Reiko Oda, Emilie Pouget


CELIA • Bordeaux
Centre Lasers Intenses et Applications
Samuel Beaulieu, Valérie Blanchet, Yann Mairesse


CEMES • Toulouse
Centre d’Élaboration de Matériaux et d’Etudes Structurales
Arnaud Arbouet, Nicolas Bizière, Christophe Gatel, Hugo Lourenço-Martins


ICS • Strasbourg
Spectroscopie ultrarapide ESI-MS de systèmes moléculaires complexes
Olivier Felix, Michel Tschopp


IPCMS • Strasbourg
Institut de physique et chimie des matériaux de Strasbourg
Stéphane Berciaud, Arnaud Gloppe, David Hagenmüller, Matteo Mauro, Guillaume Weick


IPR • Rennes
L’Institut de Physique de Rennes
Thomas Jaouen, Jean-Christophe Le Breton, Patrick Le Fèvre


ISCR • Rennes
Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes
Jeanne Crassous



ISIS-CESQ • Strasbourg
Institut de science et d’ingénierie supramoléculaires 
Eloïse Devaux, Cyriaque Genet


ISMO • Saclay
Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay
Katia Le Barbu-Debus, Valéria Lepère, Anne Zehnacker


LCH • Lyon
Laboratoire de Chimie de l’ENS Lyon
Matthias Pauly


LIDYL • Saclay
Laboratoire Interactions, Dynamiques et Lasers
Thierry Ruchon


LOMA • Bordeaux
Laboratoire Ondes et Matière d’Aquitaine
Rémi Avriller, Etienne Brasselet, Delphine Coursault, Nina Kravets


LPMS • Cergy
Laboratoire de Physique des Matériaux et de Surfaces
Mauro Fanciulli, Olivier Heckmann, Karol Hricovini, Christine Richter 


SOLEIL/DESIRS • Saint-Aubin
Source Optimisée de Lumière d’Energie Intermédiaire du LURE
Gustavo Garcia, Laurent Nahon


TORNADO project publications

5 documents

Journal articles

  • Jennifer Dupont, Julien Vincent, Anne Zehnacker, Gustavo Garcia, Laurent Nahon, et al.. The role of intramolecular hydrogen bonding in photoelectron circular dichroism: the diastereoisomers of 1-amino-2-indanol. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2025, 27 (5), pp.2739-2748. ⟨10.1039/d4cp04248d⟩. ⟨hal-04966044⟩
  • Mauro Fanciulli, Matteo Pancaldi, Anda-Elena Stanciu, Matthieu Guer, Emanuele Pedersoli, et al.. Magnetic Vortex Dynamics Probed by Time-Resolved Magnetic Helicoidal Dichroism. Physical Review Letters, 2025, 134 (15), pp.156701. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.156701⟩. ⟨hal-05127585⟩
  • Lavinia Ballerini, Christophe Gourlaouen, Mathias Delporte-Pébay, Cristina Cebrian Avila, Emilie Voirin, et al.. Mono‐ IrIII versus heterobimetallic IrIII‐AuI complexes for circularly polarized luminescence. Chemistry - A European Journal, 2025, ⟨10.1002/chem.202501611⟩. ⟨hal-05156051⟩
  • Ilaria Di Filippo, Zakaria Anfar, Gabriele Magna, Piyanan Pranee, Donato Monti, et al.. Chiral porphyrin-SiO2 nano helices-based sensors for vapor enantiomers recognition. Nanoscale Advances, 2024, 6 (17), pp.4470-4478. ⟨10.1039/D4NA00217B⟩. ⟨hal-04763137v2⟩

Conference papers

  • Anne Zehnacker. Conformer-Selective Spectroscopy of Chiral Molecules. Fritz Haber Molecular Physics Department Workshop, Sandra Eibenberger-Arias, Nov 2024, Tegernsee, Germany. ⟨hal-04966009⟩


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