ERC Starting Grant · 2023
Enantioselective screw-dislocation-mediated growth of chiral nanocrystals
In many scientific disciplines structural symmetry considerations are key. Specifically, mechanisms by which symmetry translates from atomic and molecular building blocks to crystal structures and shapes attract a great deal of attention. A fascinating aspect of this is related to chirality. Louis Pasteur’s monumental work, reported in 1848, on formation of chiral shapes in crystals made from chiral molecules, led to an intuition that chiral building blocks naturally lead to chiral shapes in crystals. Yet, after countless observations ever since of crystals with chiral shapes, mechanisms of their formation are understood to be often more complex and elusive than first imagined. In work…
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