Chirality, a property where structures have a distinct left- or right-handedness, allows natural semiconductors to move ...

All known natural life uses L (left-handed) amino acids in proteins and D (right-handed) sugars in DNA and RNA. In contrast, mirror life would use D proteins and L sugars — effectively a reversed ...

The self assembly of molecules into supramolecular structures responds to a variety of triggers, including light, temperature ...

Scientists built a chiral metal-organic framework that boosts circularly polarized light, achieving record luminescence and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 our high school chemistry classes we all learn about chirality, the property of organic molecules in which two chemically identical molecules can have different structures that are mirror images of ...

A new, real-time technique to measure the changes in chirality of biomolecules in the deep ultraviolet part of the electromagnetic spectrum could be important for improved drug development and ...

Like a giraffe stretching for leaves on a tall tree, making carbon nanotubes reach for food as they grow may lead to a long-sought breakthrough. (Courtesy: Ksenia Bets/Rice University) Theoretical ...