AMES, Iowa – Alex Travesset doesn’t have a shiny research lab filled with the latest instruments that probe new nanomaterials and measure their special properties. No, his theoretical work explaining ...

Living cells are highly organized, yet they are not assembled using rigid blueprints or by following a predetermined plan.

A joint research project of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), the University of Siegen, Forschungszentrum Jülich, and the Elettra Synchrotron Trieste has achieved a new milestone for the ...

In nature, molecules often show a strong preference for partnering with other molecules that share the same chirality or handedness. A behavior that is quite evident in the phenomenon known as ...

How the molecules of life came to adopt a particular handedness is an enduring mystery—one that chemists may never completely solve. Nicholas V. Hud and coworkers at the Georgia Institute of ...

A study finds chiral structures, with mirror-image configurations, can emerge from nonchiral systems, suggesting new ways to engineer these materials. Hold your hands out in front of you, and no ...

Researchers have analyzed the stepwise hydration of prolinol, a molecule widely used as a catalyst and as a building block in chemical synthesis. The study shows that just a few water molecules can ...

Terahertz light has the ability to control solids at the atomic level, forming chiral structures of left- and right-handedness. Chirality refers to objects that cannot be superimposed to their mirror ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Chirality is a critical concept in chemistry and life sciences, especially when applied to a molecular level. Many molecules such as amino acids, proteins, sugars, and DNA are ...