Centrosymmetric crystals have always absorbed equal amounts of left- and right-handed circularly polarized light—until now ...

(1) Amorphous materials lack the ordered molecular lattice of crystalline materials, hence the strength of intermolecular interactions is lower than in crystalline solids. The higher free energy state ...

These results illustrate the potent prospect of employing the elastic softening effect to engineer lower than amorphous, or subamorphous, thermal conductivity in ultrathin crystalline nanostructures.

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