New strategy for the synthesis of axially chiral allenic compounds
Recently, a Chinese research team led by Prof. GUO Chang at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) ...
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Truly chiral phonons observed in three-dimensional materials for the first time
Chirality is the breaking of reflection and inversion symmetries. Simply put, it is when an object’s mirror images cannot be ...
Chiral quasi bound states in the continuum for high-purity circularly polarized light source
An ultracompact circularly polarized light source is crucial component for the applications of classical and quantum optics information processing. The ...
Chiral sources for metamaterial interface waveguides
Metamaterial interface waveguides can confine and guide electromagnetic (EM) waves, which has attractive potential in integrated photonics physics and wireless ...
Learning chemical networks give life a chiral twist
When holding a right hand in front of a mirror, one can see a reflected image of a left hand ...
Chiral gold nanoparticles increase vaccine efficacy by more than 25%, study suggests
Vaccines can be made over 25% more effective by adding left-handed chiral gold nanoparticles as adjuvants, according to a study ...
Twisted vibrations enable quality control for chiral drugs and supplements
Images // Video It's not easy to be sure that drugs and supplements with twisted—or chiral—structures are turning in the ...
Durham University scientists invent world’s first advanced laser microscope to study chiral molecules
Scientists from Durham University’s Chemistry Department have developed the world’s first laser scanning confocal microscope that can harness Circularly Polarised ...
new chiral nanostructures to extend the material platform
A research team transferred chirality from the molecular scale to a microscale to extend material platforms and applications. The optical ...