Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-50935-4 The team used extensive particle-based simulations to demonstrate that achiral hard banana-shaped particles, governed solely ...

(Nanowerk News) A research team has discovered that achiral hard banana-shaped particles can spontaneously form exotic structures like skyrmions and blue phase III phases. Skyrmions are tiny ...

Rafael Rodríguez believes that "this molecule could become a drug to treat the symptoms of dementia, at least during the initial stages of the disease, because we have already seen that the body ...

Single-molecule biophysics is the study of the dynamics and interactions of individual biomolecules to understand how they carry out their functions in living cells. For example, monitoring the ...

Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Frontier Material Physics and Devices, School of Physical Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215006, China ...

"Moreover, the effect is vectorial," explained Wittmann. If the helix structure of a chiral molecule is directed upwards, this effect occurs only if the spin is more or less in the same direction or ...

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These are achiral objects. DNA helices are chiral and ... The bearing of a chiral molecule dictates which biological receptors it can bind to and how it interacts with the other substances ...

"This is because when we change wavelengths to obtain the fingerprint of the molecule, the fork is still moving. To measure the next feature, we must somehow stop the movement." To overcome this ...

Polyisocyanides are polymers distinguished by their helical structures, where the helix's winding direction (right- or left-handed) can be controlled through catalysts designed for synthesizing ...

Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, 9747AG Groningen, The Netherlands ...