living polymerization of optically active polyisocyanides using liquid crystals with chiral (mirror-image isomer) structures as a solvent. Circular dichroism measurements of the resulting ...

If we exclude the panspermia hypothesis, then life on Earth, with key biomolecules utilising only one of two possible mirror-image – or chiral – forms, arose from random “experiments” in ...

A major breakthrough in organic semiconductors has been achieved, potentially transforming display technology and even future computing. By designing a material that forces electrons to spiral, ...

Chirality is a fundamental property of asymmetry in nature, where an object or molecule cannot be superimposed onto its mirror image ... helical (blue), as indicated by the helices. (Image: ...

The molecules responsible for optical activity are chiral, meaning that they cannot be superimposed on their mirror images — of which the human hand is a paradigm example. For this reason ...

chiral molecules are mirror images of one another. Chirality plays an important role in biological processes like DNA formation, but it is a difficult phenomenon to harness and control in electronics.

The phenomenon is called chirality, and the molecules that have this property are called chiral molecules. For the latter ones, this means that the left-handed and the right-handed molecules, also ...

Chirality refers to objects that cannot be superimposed onto their mirror images through any combination ... left and right hands of a human. In chiral crystals, the spatial arrangement of atoms ...