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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...