Chirality: like a right hand and a left hand, two molecules can have the same composition, but a different shape and arrangement in space. And this difference can change everything. Understanding and ...

A new study shows that the way amyloid proteins—implicated in Alzheimer's disease—assemble into fibrils can be significantly ...

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 ...

The research team, led by Andrea Cavalleri, used terahertz light to lift this balance in the non-chiral material boron phosphate (BPO 4), in this way inducing finite chirality on an ultrafast time ...

Jul 13, 2024 Structured electrons with chiral mass and charge (Nanowerk News) Physicists in Konstanz (Germany) have discovered a way to imprint a previously unseen geometrical form of chirality onto ...