ITMO University Saint Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics

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16 june 2015

Scientists prove natural formation of “right” and “left” nanoparticles

A team of scientists from ITMO University and Trinity College Dublin published the first experimental results showing that ordinary nanocrystals possess intrinsic chirality and can be produced under normal conditions as a half-and-half mixture of mirror images of each other.