You wouldn’t think molecules could be left- or right-handed – they’re too tiny to have limbs, after all. However, they absolutely can be, and it’s all to do with a property called ...

A research team has discovered that achiral hard banana-shaped particles can spontaneously form exotic structures like ...

Catenanes are organic compounds with ring-like molecules that are mechanically interlocked. The mechanical locking system in such molecules is so robust that they can only be disentangled via ...

As the solvent molecules evaporated, leaving the polymers behind, the solution became more and more concentrated. Soon, the compressed achiral polymers began self-assembling to form structures.

Aug 09, 2019: Making chiral structures from achiral building blocks (Nanowerk News) Chemists at RIKEN have observed how ‘achiral’ molecules (that is, molecules that are identical to their own mirror ...

"By targeting molecules that can form both chiral and achiral crystals and follow Wallach's Rule, we might be able to develop mechano-responsible materials more strategically and efficiently," Ito ...

A combined team of researchers from the Weizmann Institute and the Israel Institute of Technology, both in Israel, has developed a way to create a chiral polymer from achiral monomers using a ...

A research team has discovered that achiral hard banana-shaped particles can spontaneously form exotic structures like skyrmions and blue phase III phases. Skyrmions are tiny vortex-like ...