Responses of chiral materials differently to left- and right-circularly polarized light (IMAGE)

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Responses of chiral materials differently to left- and right-circularly polarized light

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Fig. 1. Chiral materials exhibit the characteristic feature that they respond differently to left- and right-circularly polarized light (optical activity). The response of D-form molecule to left-circularly polarized light is same as that of L-form molecule to right-circularly polarized light, and vice versa.

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