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Chiral nanotechnology
Author(s) -
Zhang Jing,
Albelda M. Teresa,
Liu Yu,
Canary James W.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
chirality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.43
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1520-636X
pISSN - 0899-0042
DOI - 10.1002/chir.20178
Subject(s) - chirality (physics) , nanotechnology , chemistry , nanoscopic scale , fullerene , organic chemistry , physics , materials science , chiral symmetry breaking , quark , quantum mechanics , nambu–jona lasinio model
A review of chiral, nanoscale science and technology is presented, with the subject divided into two topics. The first discusses nanotechnology in the service of asymmetric synthesis, chiral separations, and analysis. The second topic concerns broader research in the nanotechnology realm, where molecular chirality plays a role in the properties of materials, including molecular devices, chiral supramolecules, chiral nanotubes, chiral fullerenes, and DNA nanotechnology. Chirality 17:404–420, 2005. © 2005 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.