Editorial: Special Topic on Chiral Materials

• • The special topic compiles 31 papers, including 12 reviews, 1 perspective, and 18 original research contributions, providing a comprehensive overview of chiral materials research. • • Reviews cover first-principles calculations of CPL (Yao et al.) and AI-driven discovery (Zou and Zhang), highlighting theoretical and computational advances. • • Original research includes chiral hybrid indium halides co-doped with Yb3+ and Sb3+ achieving near-infrared and visible dual-band CPL (Li et al., 2026, 69: 2598–2607). • • Multilayered Cs-based chiral-polar perovskite construction overcomes the chiroptical activity-photoelectricity trade-off (Dong et al., 2026, 69: 2608–2613).