Individual cells are chiral: in addition to showing up-down and front-back asymmetries, they are also asymmetric along the left-right axis. One of the possible ways this chirality could get ...

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 ...

If these nucleons orbit the same axis that the core spins around ... resultant spins for the nucleus – and Starosta’s team believes this is the key to the chiral nuclei. To test the theory, Starosta ...

This specific arrangement gave rise to mechanical chirality, as the structure retained a C₂ axis while losing all mirror and inversion symmetry. Researchers found that through co-conformational ...

Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Pittsburgh studied how the spin information of an electron, called a pure spin current, moves through chiral materials.

A quadrupole or higher dominated system primarily radiates off-axis, so it can accommodate this behaviour. In a chiral structure the light couples to these multipoles differently depending on the ...

The CISS effect occurs when charge current flows along the chiral axis in a chiral material, producing spin – or charge-to-spin conversion – without needing ferromagnetic elements. Charge-to ...

Chirality is a fundamental property of matter that determines many biological, chemical and physical phenomena. Chiral solids, for example, offer exciting opportunities for catalysis, sensing and ...

A strategy to invert the chirality of a metal-containing helical molecule controlling the speed of the response is reported in Chemistry, A European Journal by researchers at Kanazawa University.