We found that in addition to a resonant reflection band, the periodic chiral structure possessed a broad, non-resonant and polarization-selective scattering band. Later, by drawing and twisting ...

The research team, led by Andrea Cavalleri of the Max-Planck-Institut for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, used terahertz light to lift this balance in the non-chiral material boron phosphate ...

The Hamburg-Oxford team focused on so-called antiferro-chirals, a type of non-chiral crystals reminiscent ... either a left- or right-handed chiral structure,” continues fellow author Michael ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) and the University of Oxford have shown that terahertz light can induce chirality in a non-chiral crystal ...

The chiral amphiphiles, due to their hydrophilic and hydrophobic frameworks, spontaneously form globular structures called ...

The alternative option of inducing a current in chiral molecules, i.e., molecules that have no superimposable mirror images, such as helix structures, has been discussed over the past decade.

In their study, the research team synthesized optically active conducting polymers from non-optically active ... liquid crystals with chiral (mirror-image isomer) structures as a solvent.