Homochirality Simulation (IMAGE)

Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Homochirality Simulation

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This is a computer simulation of the emergence of homochirality. The colors represent the degree of chirality, with red being (e.g.) right and blue being (e.g.) left. At the beginning the mixture has equal numbers of right and left-handed molecules, and during the time evolution, the red and blue phases compete over the spatial domain, resulting in the eventual dominance of the blue chiral phase.

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Nigel Goldenfeld Lab, University of Illinois

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