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.

Semiconductors are the cornerstone of modern technology, used in everything from mobile phones and computers to space crafts ...

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 ...

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

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

Researchers at the University of Turku, Finland, have succeeded in producing sensors from single-wall carbon nanotubes that ...

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

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 ...

Upon illumination with circularly polarized light, it was observed that the intensity of light scattered at the second harmonic (2f) depended on the chirality of the helices. Chiroptical Harmony’s ...