From synthetic drugs to biodegradable plastics to the origin of life, the chiral selection of
molecules presents both daunting challenges and significant opportunities in materials …

Chirality is a basic property of nature and has great importance in photonics, biochemistry,
medicine, and catalysis. This importance has led to the emergence of the chiral inorganic …

The controlled growth of gold nanostructures with complex shapes and reduced symmetry,
exemplified by chiral gold nanorods and nanoparticles, is one of the most dynamic fields of …

Crystalline surfaces of common rock-forming minerals are likely to have played several
important roles in life's geochemical origins. Transition metal sulfides and oxides promote a …

An overview of recent advancements in density functional theory modeling of particularly
reactive sites at noble and late transition metal surfaces is given. Such special sites include …

One of the methods to render CdSe/ZnS core–shell quantum dots (QDots) water-soluble is
to functionalize the surface with carboxylate groups by the use of heterobifunctional ligands …

Research on surface chirality is motivated by the need to develop functional chiral surfaces
for enantiospecific applications. While molecular chirality in 3D has been the subject of study …

The adsorption of cysteine on the (111) surface of gold has been studied by means of
periodic supercell density-functional theory calculations. A number of different adsorption …

One of the most enigmatic steps in Earth's ancient transition from a lifeless planet to a living
world was the process or processes by which prebiotic organic molecules were selected …

Theoretical investigations and computational studies have notoriously contributed to the
development of our understanding of heterogeneous catalysis during the last decades …