Nanoparticles naturally present left- and right-handed versions
Wednesday, June 17, 2015 - 04:50
in Physics & Chemistry
A team of scientists from ITMO University and Trinity College Dublin published 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. The discovery of this fundamental property in nanocrystals opens new horizons in nano- and bio-technology and medicine, for instance, in such applications as targeted drug delivery. The results of the study were published in Nano Letters.