A recently discovered Weyl semimetal delivers the largest intrinsic conversion of light to electricity of any material, an international team led by a group of Boston College researchers reported in ...

Chemists at the University of Geneva and University of Pisa have crafted a novel family of chiral molecules whose mirror-image “handedness” remains rock-solid for tens of thousands of years. By ...

Chirality is an intrinsic property of matter that determines the biological activity of biomolecules. “Nature is asymmetric, it has a left and a right and can tell the difference between them.

Sep 21, 2020 Towards chirality control of graphene nanoribbons embedded in hexagonal boron nitride (Nanowerk News) Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are one-dimensional strips of graphene that can exhibit ...

Peptide induces chirality evolution in a single gold nanoparticle New bioinspired optical materials for flexible, reflective display Date: April 18, 2018 Source: Seoul National University Summary ...

Ligand chirality can affect histidine protonation of vitamin-D receptor: ab initio molecular orbital calculations in water. Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, in press.