Just when scientists thought they knew everything about crystals, a Northwestern University and University of ...

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

Electromagnetic chirality transfer represents an effective means of the nanoscale manipulation of optical chirality. While most of the previous reports have exclusively focused on the circular ...

Yin explained that his team’s method uses permanent magnets that consistently rotate in space to generate the chirality. He said transferring chirality to achiral molecules is done by doping, that is ...

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 ...

Chiroptical spectroscopies like circular dichroism report on the handedness of molecules but are often limited to the high-concentration regime because of the mismatch between the wavelength of ...

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 ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are the first to observe a biological property called chirality emerging in achiral conjugated polymers, which are used to design flexible ...

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.