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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

In chemistry, chirality is a property that refers to a pair of molecules that share atomic makeup but are mirror images of each other. Like your left and right hands, they can’t be superimposed on ...

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 ...

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.