Researchers have discovered a method to induce chirality in non-chiral materials using terahertz light. This groundbreaking ...

Chirality is a fundamental property of matter that determines many biological, chemical and physical phenomena. Chiral solids, for example, offer exciting opportunities for catalysis, sensing and ...

They arranged dozens of red Solo and clear plastic cups, each containing one alum crystal, on the room’s large wooden table.

Now, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) and the University of Oxford have discovered a way to induce chirality in a non-chiral crystal using ...

Chirality is the property of an object that makes it different from its mirror image, like our left and right hands. In chiral crystals, the arrangement of atoms gives them a specific “handedness,” ...

Zeng et al, Photo-induced chirality in a nonchiral crystal, Science (2025). DOI: 10.1126/science.adr4713 Provided by Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter ...

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An international research team has synthesized a multilayered two-dimensional polyaniline (2DPANI) crystal, achieving unique ...

Feb. 5, 2025 — Physicists measured how readily a current of electron pairs flows through 'magic-angle' graphene, a major step toward understanding how this unusual ...

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