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New Mechanism to Transfer Chirality Between Molecules in The Nanoscale Field

2022-04-30

New Mechanism to Transfer Chirality Between Molecules in The Nanoscale Field

If we compare the right to the left hand, we can see these are specular images —that is, like symmetrical shapes reflected in a mirror— and they cannot superimpose on each other. This property is chirality, a feature of the matter that plays with the symmetry of biological structures at different scales, from the DNA molecule to the tissues of the heart muscle.