An entirely new structure of light is helping to measure chirality in molecules more accurately and robustly than ever before, in a major potential step for the pharmaceutical industry. Published in ...

By superimposing two ultrashort laser pulses that converge from different directions, a team of physicists at the University ...

Some quantum states of electrons have remained out of reach not because they do ...

Despite their identical composition, molecules that are mirror images can interact differently with light and electrical current depending on their "handedness," which is called chirality. In a study ...

A technique that can determine the chirality of a molecule using that molecule’s own electrons could allow researchers to probe the dynamical behavior of chiral molecules on very short timescales.

A carbon atom can form four single bonds. Graphic: Carbon with four bonds in 3D. In three dimensions, these four bonds are arranged tetrahedrally. Graphic: Tetrahedral bond arrangement. Which means ...

Scientists have made a significant leap forward in the field of chiral molecules. The team achieved near-complete separation in quantum states for these essential components of life. This discovery ...

Researchers verified the chiral-induced spin selectivity effect, i.e., the influence of chiral molecules on spin, using spintronic analytical techniques. Researchers at Mainz University verified the ...

Mirror bacteria could also, they noted, be indigestible to single-celled creatures, such as amoebae, that are the principal ...

A terahertz platform built on an achiral gradient metasurface resolves the components, handedness, and mixing ratios of chiral biomolecule mixtures in a single broadband measurement. (Nanowerk ...