Mechanical strain is one of the most common tools used to tailor the properties of materials. In piezoelectric materials, ...

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 ...

Researchers have discovered that mechanical strain also induces chirality in non-chiral crystals, opening a new direction to ...

Enantioselection with neither chiral catalysis nor chiral ingredients (absolute enantioselection) has been one of the most active topics in biology, but its experimental realizations have been ...

Some molecules exist in two forms, such that their structures and their mirror images are not superimposable, like our left and right hands. Called chirality, it is a property these molecules have due ...

Whether or not an object is indistinguishable from its mirror image has important consequences for its physical behavior. Say you watch a basketball player in a mirror. The ball, the player and their ...

New findings settle the dispute: phonons can be chiral. This fundamental concept, discovered using circular X-ray light, sees phonons twisting like a corkscrew through quartz. Findings published in ...

Researchers used circularly polarized Raman spectroscopy to study how light scatters from a centrosymmetric nickel titanium oxide (NiTiO 3) crystal. By comparing the intensity of scattered left- and ...