Nanoscopic static electricity generates chiral patterns

Monday, February 2, 2009 - 13:42 in Physics & Chemistry

In the tiny world of amino acids and proteins and in the helical shape of DNA, a biological phenomenon abounds. These objects are all chiral - they cannot exactly superimpose their mirror image by translation or rotation...

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