Chirality refers to two versions of a structure – be that light, molecules or crystals – that are almost identical but cannot ...

A new platform for engineering chiral electron pathways offers potential fresh insights into a quantum phenomenon discovered by chemists—and exemplifies how the second quantum revolution is fostering ...

Centrosymmetric crystals have always absorbed equal amounts of left- and right-handed circularly polarized light—until now ...

Why do electrons favor one spin over another in twisted environments? A newly developed system lets us explore this quantum bias with clarity.

In the natural world, many things come in mirror-image pairs. Your left and right hands are a perfect example—they look alike ...

A pioneering research lab at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has achieved another milestone using light-driven ...

Chemists have synthesized the first stable molecule whose chirality is solely attributed to a stereogenic oxygen, according to a new study (Nature 2023, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05719-z). Though ...

You’d think there would be a law against this, and scientists thought there was, but somehow it happens, and it could help ...

Their work showcases the development of a compact catenane with tuneable mechanical chirality, ... Assistant Professors Dr Chun TANG and Dr Ruihua ZHANG from HKU's Department of Chemistry.

Over and over, biochemists have found that when living cells use chiral molecules, they use one chirality exclusively. The sugars that make up DNA, for example, are all right-handed. The amino ...

To test the theory, the team synthesized the crystal and studied how it interacted with circularly polarized light. As ...