In the past several decades, significant progress has been made in controlling molecular chirality, as evidenced by the several Nobel Prizes in chemistry awarded in this area, particularly for ...

That none of these endured suggests that something in that chirality made them less fit to spread, either due to biochemistry or because the chirality of observed life outperformed them.

In a striking demonstration of molecular control, a team of scientists has harnessed light to reverse the twist in self-assembling molecules. The study identifies how trace residual aggregates in ...

Chiral-structural-color materials produce color through microscopic structures that interact with light rather than through pigmentation or dyes. Some beetle exoskeletons, avian feathers ...

Wenzheng Fan and Guosheng Liu with the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences outline the difficulties chemists face when trying to produce single enantiomers from chiral molecules and then give an ...

CD in in Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Circular Dichroism (CD) spectroscopy is a technique used to measure the differential absorption of left- and right-handed circularly polarized ...