Single crystals of potassium europium nitrate, K₃[Eu₂(NO₃)₉], grown from water by slow evaporation (a). Single-crystal X-ray diffraction reveals left- and right-handed chiral crystal structures (c, d) ...
Helical liquid crystals and chirality Helical liquid crystals naturally produce circularly polarized light, making them attractive for chirality control. The catch is that neighboring molecules grip ...
Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have created a chip-scale device that can dynamically control the "handedness" of light as it passes ...
Researchers at Kumamoto University have discovered that a purely inorganic crystal grown from water solution can emit circularly polarized light, a special form of light whose "handedness" ...