The study of chiral molecules – entities that exist in non-superimposable mirror images – has profound implications across a range of scientific disciplines, from synthetic chemistry to ...

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 ...

(Nanowerk News) The role of electrons and their negative charge in electric current is well established. Electrons also exhibit other intrinsic properties that are associated, for example, with ...

Can you imagine a life-saving molecule whose “twin” is a deadly poison? As surprising as it may seem, this chemical reality is known as “chirality”. Like a right hand and a left hand, two molecules ...

Chiral molecules are common in medicines because chirality is common in nature, from spiraling vines and shells to amino acids and various proteins, to the human body's protein receptors, the site of ...

A team of Japanese researchers has discovered a new technique to tweak molecular orientation that could dramatically improve energy transfer when absorbing light. While in its infancy, this discovery ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Synthetic biology offers many tantalizing possibilities, but scientists consider some projects too risky to pursue.

Experiment is an important step towards isolating right- and lefthanded molecules from each other. (Nanowerk News) A team of DESY researchers, led by DESY lead scientist and University of Kiel ...

Researchers verified the chiral-induced spin selectivity effect, i.e., the influence of chiral molecules on spin, using spintronic analytical techniques. Researchers at Mainz University verified the ...