Creating chiral superstructures in magnetic quadrupole fields  

作　　者：Shu-Hong Yu 

机构地区：[1]Department of Chemistry,Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences,University of Science and Technology of China,China [2]Department of Materials Science and Engineering,Southern University of Science and Technology,China

出　　处：《National Science Review》2023年第11期79-80,共2页国家科学评论（英文版）

摘　　要：Chiral materials refer to species with chiral symmetry,which means the absence of mirror planes or breaking of inversion symmetry in material structures.A material or structure is chiral if it is distinguishable from its mirror images.That is,the chiral materials and their mirror images do not coincide through rotations or translations.Chiral materials are frequently described as‘handed'because our hands themselves are chiral.Chirality exists in nature,including the DNA double helix,proteins,amino acids and human hands.Interestingly,biology only adopts onechirality in nature.

关 键 词：CHIRAL MIRROR SYMMETRY 

分 类 号：O469[理学—凝聚态物理]