Many biopolymers such as DNA form helices, which are inherently chiral structures, while compounds such as amino acids form complex 3D shapes that also can have left and right forms. Researchers now ...

Chirality is a fundamental property of asymmetry in nature, where an object or molecule cannot be superimposed onto its mirror image. In the context of nanotechnology, chirality refers to the ...

A new study has uncovered a surprising role for calcium in shaping life’s earliest molecular structures, shedding light on ...

A new study led by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at the Institute of Science, Tokyo, has uncovered a ...

Chirality is a term that refers to a property ... Chromophores are parts of a molecule responsible for its color. They absorb light at specific wavelengths, which corresponds to certain colors ...

The work is published in the journal eLight. Chirality refers to the "handedness" of a molecule, like a left and right hand. Many biological molecules are chiral, and their handedness can be ...

The phenomenon is called chirality, and the molecules that have this property are called chiral molecules. For the latter ones, this means that the left-handed and the right-handed molecules, also ...

The UCF-developed plasmonic technology, shown here, significantly improves the detection of the chirality of molecules, meeting a crucial demand in the field of medical and pharmaceutical research.

Exploration of new functional materials are pursued on the basis of fine integration and assembly of functional groups on the chiral helical macromolecules, which can be regarded as nanoscale chiral ...

A team of Dutch and U.K. researchers have made an exciting discovery that could dramatically improve polarisation in OLED TVs ...

The characterization of chiral aggregates by CD is also not trivial, and finding the origin of optical activity is often a thorny problem: Does the signal come from the molecule or the aggregate?