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Cover Picture: Spontaneous Transmission of Chirality through Multiple Length Scales (Chem. Eur. J. 26/2011)
Author(s) -
Iski Erin V.,
Tierney Heather L.,
Jewell April D.,
Sykes E. Charles H.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201190130
Subject(s) - chirality (physics) , nanoscopic scale , chemical physics , cover (algebra) , hexagonal crystal system , nanotechnology , materials science , surface (topology) , crystallography , condensed matter physics , physics , chemistry , geometry , quantum mechanics , chiral symmetry , mathematics , mechanical engineering , nambu–jona lasinio model , engineering , quark
The hierarchical transfer of chirality in nature, from the nano‐, to meso‐, to macroscopic length scales, is very complex, and as of yet, not well understood. In their Full Paper on page 7205 ff., E. C. H. Sykes et al. describe the self‐assembly of an asymmetric, polyaromatic hydrocarbon that forms complex 2D chiral architectures as a function of molecular packing density when adsorbed on a copper surface. In the figure, the self‐assembly of the molecule into discrete, nanoscale molecular domains is compared to the hexagonal stones of the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland.