Hold out your hands, palms up, and move them so they are on top of each other. With a little experimentation—and perhaps a ...

Their work showcases the development of a compact catenane with tuneable mechanical chirality, offering promising applications in areas such as material science, nanotechnology, and pharmaceuticals.

Laboratory of Organic Nanomaterials and Biomolecules, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 1 Street, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland ...

They have outlined a scheme by which two experimentally observed and prebiotically plausible reactions of amino acids could ...

Universidad de Granada, Departamento de Química Orgánica, Unidad de Excelencia Química Aplicada a Biomedicina y Medioambiente, C. U. Fuentenueva, Avda. Severo Ochoa s/n, E-18071 Granada, Spain ...

The discovery is based on a unique aspect of the material where electrons can be separated by their chirality, or handedness, similar to DNA. The findings may offer a new route to efficient generation ...

The non-chiral kagome lattice (corner-sharing triangles) basis of the topological material KV3Sb5 is found to develop subtle electronic chirality near the surface which shows distinct electromagnetic ...

Most proteins are left-handed, but scientists have found an ancient molecule that works in both mirror-image forms.

Like hands and feet, many molecules in life, such amino acids, are chiral. Chiral objects are non-superimposable mirror images of each other. Chirality (ky-RAL-ih-tee) is not simply a feature of limbs ...

Catalysis is the unsung hero of modern life—a silent engine that accelerates chemical reactions while remaining unchanged at the end of the process. This deceptively simple characteristic has enabled ...

Their work, recently published in the prestigious journal Nature Synthesis, showcases the development of a compact catenane with tuneable mechanical chirality, offering promising applications in areas ...