Identifying liquid chiral molecules with X-rays (IMAGE)

Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society

Identifying liquid chiral molecules with X-rays

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Left- or right-handed X-ray light can be used to identify the mirror-image shapes of chiral molecules, even in the liquid phase.

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© Stephan Thürmer/University of Kyoto

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