For Wan, now at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York, the work was an introduction to an odd quirk of animal biology: cell chirality, a little-understood phenomenon that a handful of ...

Chirality is a fundamental property of asymmetry in nature, where an object or molecule cannot be superimposed onto its mirror image. In the context of nanotechnology, chirality refers to the ...

And that that’d be a reasonable assumption to make. But not every molecule is a mirror molecule. There are some things that don’t have chirality, don’t have handedness, things like glycerol. And so E.

Both results make use of chirality — a structural design that does not show mirror symmetry. Some naturally occurring materials, such as milk or sugar solutions, have extremely weak chirality.

A recent review article published in Engineering delves into the latest research on enhancing chiral optical signals, a topic with significant ...

The university’s materials engineering collegium researcher developed methods to segregate nanotubes based on their chirality ...

Recently, a research team found a way to design a class of homochiral organometallic nanosheets that exhibit room-temperature ...

Chirality is a property of materials where their mirror image is not identical to the original -- just like our left and right hands. This unique characteristic creates two distinct states, which ...

In a new study, researchers produced nanomaterials that could be used in developing more accurate sensors for healthcare in the future.

Chiral-structural-color materials produce color through microscopic structures that interact with light rather than through ...