achiral to chiral final.mp4 (VIDEO)

Rice University

Caption

MP4 animation that begins with a plane of tightly packed tetrahedrons in a non-chiral 2D sheet. When the particles come close together, their tips contact and rotation is necessary for the structure to densify. Left or right rotation results in opposite mirror image chiral superlattices.

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Jones Lab/Rice University

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