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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Same with alpha helices, the building blocks of proteins. Chirality, or handedness, is everywhere in biology, but the reasons can be a mystery. Greg Huber, a biophysicist and researcher at 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 ...