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Chlorophylls, Symmetry, Chirality, and Photosynthesis [PDF]

Symmetry, 2014
Chlorophylls are a fundamental class of tetrapyrroles and function as the central reaction center, accessory and photoprotective pigments in photosynthesis. Their unique individual photochemical properties are a consequence of the tetrapyrrole macrocycle, the structural chemistry and coordination behavior of the phytochlorin system, and specific ...
Mathias O. Senge, Aoife A. Ryan, Kristie A. Letchford, Stuart A. MacGowan, Tamara Mielke   +4 more
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Impact of Disorder on Microscopic Superconducting and Normal‐State Responses in a Kagome Metal

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Using depth‐resolved, field‐ and pressure‐dependent μSR$\umu{\rm SR}$ measurements, we show that disorder in Ta‐doped KV3Sb5 drives a crossover from nodal to nodeless superconductivity while strongly modifying the normal‐state magnetic response. Our results reveal that disorder affects superconductivity and magnetism in fundamentally different ways ...
J. N. Graham, S. S. Islam, G. Janka, A. Doll, P. Král, O. Gerguri, J. A. Krieger, T. J. Hicken, X. Xu, X. Yan, H. Qin, Z. Salman, A. Suter, T. Prokscha, R. Thomale, H. Luetkens, R. Khasanov, J.‐X. Yin, Z. Guguchia   +18 more
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Interplay between nuclear chiral and reflection symmetry breakings revealed by the lifetime measurements in 76Br

Physics Letters B, 2022
Nearly degenerate positive-parity doublet bands and several E1 transitions between positive- and negative-parity bands have been identified in 76Br. These experimental observations are interpreted as the coexistence of chirality and octupole correlations,
W.Z. Xu, S.Y. Wang, C. Liu, X.G. Wu, R.J. Guo, B. Qi, J. Zhao, A. Rohilla, H. Jia, G.S. Li, Y. Zheng, C.B. Li, X.C. Han, L. Mu, X. Xiao, S. Wang, D.P. Sun, Z.Q. Li, Y.M. Zhang, C.L. Wang, Y. Li   +20 more
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Polarization Sensitivity of Chiral Manganese Halide Scintillators Enables High‐Resolution X‐Ray Imaging

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Highly luminescent chiral manganese halide crystals are synthesized using chiral ligands, and they exhibit dissymmetry factors up to 1.4 × 10−2 and show X‐ray detection scintillation capability with a light yield of 43 380 photons/MeV and a low detection limit of 0.05198 µGyair·s−1.
Yue Han, Jun'an Lai, Peng He, Wenxia Zhang, Xirong Ke, Shengsi Liu, Kang An, Xiao‐Fang Jiang, Lakshminarayana Polavarapu, Xiaosheng Tang   +9 more
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Halogen bond-modulated solid-state reordering and symmetry breaking of azahelicenes

Nature Communications
Spontaneous symmetry breaking predominately occurs during the aggregation of discrete molecules in solution. Herein, we report a unique solid-state symmetry breaking process of dynamically chiral aza[4]helicenes that emerged in vacuum-driven ...
Juncong Liang, Fuwei Gan, Guoli Zhang, Chengshuo Shen, Huibin Qiu   +4 more
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Assembly of planar chiral superlattices from achiral building blocks

Nature Communications, 2022
The formation of nanostructures with chiral symmetry often requires chiral directing agents at a smaller length scale. Here, the authors report the self-assembly of 2D chiral superlattices from achiral tetrahedron-shaped building blocks.
Zhihua Cheng, Matthew R. Jones
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Interaction‐Driven Assembly Pathways in Heterogeneous Active Microrobotic Systems

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Peanut‐ and cube‐shaped light‐powered microrobots exhibit distinct magnetic and photocatalytic responses that determine their heterogeneous self‐assembly. In the dark, magnetic dipole interactions drive colloidal copolymerization with cubes acting as nucleation centers, whereas under light irradiation, phoretic interactions compete with magnetic ...
Domenico Calabrò, Roshan Velluvakandy, Martin Pumera, Francesco Priolo, Salvo Mirabella, Mario Urso   +5 more
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A chiral Λ-bms4 symmetry of AdS4 gravity

Nuclear Physics B
Generalising the chiral boundary conditions of R1,3 gravity for AdS4 gravity, we derive chiral locally AdS4 solutions in the Newman-Unti gauge consistent with a variational principle whose asymptotic symmetry algebra we show, to be an infinite ...
Nishant Gupta, Nemani V. Suryanarayana
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Emergent chiral symmetry in a three-dimensional interacting Dirac liquid

Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021
We compute the effects of strong Hubbardlike local electronic interactions on three-dimensional four-component massless Dirac fermions, which in a noninteracting system possess a microscopic global U(1) ⊗ SU(2) chiral symmetry.
András L. Szabó, Bitan Roy
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Sulfur‐Free Ultrahigh‐Refractive‐Index Polymers Enabled by Densely Packed Oxygen‐Bridged Dibenzofuran‐Cardo Architectures

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A new class of sulfur‐free, oxygen‐bridged dibenzofuran‐based polymers is developed for ultrahigh‐refractive‐index applications. The rigid π‐extended architecture and enhanced molecular polarizability enable exceptional optical performance, combining refractive indices up to 1.848 with high Abbe numbers and full visible transparency. This work offers a
Hend A. Hegazy, Gyeongsoo Kim, Sooyoung Lee, Mohamed R. Elmasry, Youn‐Chul Kim, Changsik Song   +5 more
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