A combined team of researchers from the Weizmann Institute and the Israel Institute of Technology, both in Israel, has developed a way to create a chiral polymer from achiral monomers using a magnetic ...

Chiral optical materials have attracted great attention in multiple disciplines due to their wide application value in fields such as remote sensing, three-dimensional display, information ...

Raman optical activity, long thought to require chiral molecules or magnetic order, has been demonstrated in an achiral, nonmagnetic crystal by researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo. The ...

Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter Chirality is one of the most fundamental geometric properties and plays a special role in biology, chemistry and physics. It can cause ...

Contrary to conventional wisdom, a lattice of engineered nanoparticles called meta-atoms can have a chiral optical response even when each meta-atom is not chiral. An array of artificial ...

Whether or not an object is indistinguishable from its mirror image has important consequences for its physical behavior. Say you watch a basketball player in a mirror. The ball, the player and their ...

Universitat Jaume I researchers received nearly €1.2 million for four-year projects to study chiral materials and design ...

In trying to produce artificial chirality in the lab, chemists have found that the distribution of a magnetic field is itself chiral. Some molecules exist in two forms such that their structures and ...

Researchers used circularly polarized Raman spectroscopy to study how light scatters from a centrosymmetric nickel titanium oxide (NiTiO 3) crystal. By comparing the intensity of scattered left- and ...

Researchers have demonstrated a method to create circular polarizing films from nonchiral nanoclusters that form spiral chains during drying. This micrograph shows a chiral film formed by drying a ...