Ultrathin, flat lens resolves chirality and color
Thursday, June 23, 2016 - 13:21
in Biology & Nature
Many things in the natural world are geometrically chiral, meaning they cannot be superimposed onto their mirror image. Think hands—right and left hands are mirror images but if you transplanted a right hand onto a left, you'd be in trouble. Certain molecules are chiral, including DNA and amino acids.