In nature, there exist structures that are mirror images of each other but cannot be perfectly superimposed. These are known ...
A new method of distinguishing chiral molecules could eventually detect distortions inside quantum and soft materials, find ...
Raman optical activity, long thought to require chiral molecules or magnetic order, has been demonstrated in an achiral, ...
Recent studies have revealed that electrons passing through chiral molecules exhibit significant spin polarization—a phenomenon known as chirality-induced spin selectivity. This effect stems from a ...
New research describes how the modulation of the geometry of a helical reactor at a macroscopic level enables controlling the sign of chirality of a process at a nanometric scale, an unprecedented ...
Researchers in the lab of Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Xing Wang have discovered the influential role of ...
Chiral molecules - compounds that are mirror images of each other - play an important role in biological processes and in chemical synthesis. Chemists have now succeeded for the first time in using ...
In the beginning, there were chiral molecules. RNA, DNA, proteins, and other biological molecules tend to be present as only either right- or left-handed. However, scientists are not sure how this ...
Figure 1: Microscopy image showing the concentric pattern of F-actin, which gives rise to the clockwise rotation of the nucleus cytoplasm (the colors indicate the ...