Weijie Sun, Huatian Hu, Banghuan Zhang, Wen Chen, Tao Ding
Chiral discrimination is crucial for biochemical applications, yet conventional spectroscopic methods suffer from low throughput due to serial acquisition. Here, we present a high-throughput strategy using machine learning on left- and right-circularly polarized dark-field RGB images, eliminating the need for spectral acquisition. Our approach achieves >97% accuracy for strongly chiral nanoparticles and generalizes to unseen nanoparticle types with 74% accuracy. As a proof-of-principle for molecular chirality discrimination, we detect chiral molecules adsorbed on plasmonic nanoparticles with 80% accuracy. While cross-molecule generalization remains limited as a consequence of molecule-specific optical signatures, it can be addressed via a library-based fingerprinting approach. This work establishes a scalable paradigm for high-throughput chirality discrimination with particular promise for pharmaceutical enantiomer screening.