Tag - Crystals

Illuminating Chirality: Twisting Crystals with Light

Credit: PixabayChirality, a key property in biological, chemical, and physical processes, plays a vital role in enabling unique interactions with polarized light and chiral molecules. As a result, chiral solids are highly valued for applications in catalysis, sensing, and optical technologies. However, chirality in crystals has traditionally remained fixed during their formation, as altering...

Revolutionary Carbon-Based Magnetic Material Finally Synthesized After 70 Years

Researchers from Osaka University and Osaka City University synthesize and crystallize a molecule that is usually too unstable to thoroughly study in the laboratory. The molecule is also a model of a revolutionary class of magnets. Since the very first documented production in 2004, researchers have been hard at work utilizing graphene and identical...