Our working hypothesis, that it is feasible to design chiral surfaces
based on a chiral SAM/metal oxide nanolayer hybrid system, is supported
by our previous research [16,17] and that of other research groups
[18,19] who showed that chirality can be templated in metal oxides to
form chiralmaterials, such as nanoporous alumina nanofilms andmesoporous
silica chiral structures. The first demonstration of the preparation
of chiral metal oxide surfaces was reported by the Switzer group
[20]. In a series of articles [20–22] they showed that chiral surfaces of
CuO can be electrodeposited onto achiral substrates (e.g., gold) using
solution-templating agents, such as tartaric acid and amino acids, to direct
the chiral growth of the metal oxide surfaces.