A Princeton team uncovered a surprising chiral quantum state in a supposedly non-chiral material, shedding light on elusive ...

Chirality—the property of an object that is distinct from its mirror image—has long captivated scientists across biology, ...

Catenanes are organic compounds with ring-like molecules that are mechanically interlocked. The mechanical locking system in ...

The team behind the new study has been working with a material made of potassium, vanadium, and antimony (KV₃Sb₅), which is ...

A recent review in Engineering presents new methods for enhancing chiral optical signals. Chirality is important in many fields, but its optical ...

In this study, chiral gold nanoparticles with a concave vortex cube structure were employed as the chiral substrate, exhibiting highly tunable optical chirality and intriguing chiral-induced spin ...

Research breakthroughs in a chiral organic superconductor Motivated by these insights, the team focused on the two-dimensional organic conductor κ-(BEDT-TTF)₂Cu(NCS)₂ (hereafter κ-NCS ...

The discovery is based on a unique aspect of the material where electrons can be separated by their chirality, or handedness, similar to DNA. The findings may offer a new route to efficient generation ...