The shape of life’s building blocks is the result of biology, chemistry, and quantum physics colliding.

For more than a hundred years, scientists have been struggling with a paradox: the key molecules of life come in two ...

New research describes how the modulation of the geometry of a helical reactor at a macroscopic level enables controlling the sign of chirality of a process at a nanometric scale, an unprecedented ...

Chirality is a fundamental property of asymmetry in nature, where an object or molecule cannot be superimposed onto its mirror image. In the context of nanotechnology, chirality refers to the ...

Researchers have achieved a significant breakthrough in the synthesis of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) by developing a novel catalyst that allows for precise control over their atomic arrangement, known as ...

Chiral molecules - compounds that are mirror images of each other - play an important role in biological processes and in chemical synthesis. Chemists have now succeeded for the first time in using ...

Study suggests spin selectivity is different in enantiomers - altering their reaction rate - which 'challenges a fundamental ...

Emergent spins via CISS effect in chiral objects interact with the magnetized substrates in an enantiospecific manner. The orientation of the anti-parallel spin pair is prescribed by the handedness of ...

In the beginning, there were chiral molecules. RNA, DNA, proteins, and other biological molecules tend to be present as only either right- or left-handed. However, scientists are not sure how this ...

A new, real-time technique to measure the changes in chirality of biomolecules in the deep ultraviolet part of the electromagnetic spectrum could be important for improved drug development and ...