Orientation-Dependent Handedness and Chiral Design

Chirality occupies a central role in fields ranging from biological self-assembly to the design of optical metamaterials. The definition of chirality, as given by Lord Kelvin, associates chirality with the lack of mirror symmetry: the inability to superpose an object on its mirror image. While this...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Efi Efrati, William T. M. Irvine
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2014-01-01
Series:Physical Review X
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.4.011003