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Enantioselective photoactivation

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Circularly polarized light actualizes the formation of chiral twisted ribbons from achiral semiconductor nanoparticles.

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Figure 1: Competing mechanisms for the formation of twisted CdS ribbons with pitches of ∼1 μm by photoactivation of thioglycolic-acid-capped ∼5-nm achiral CdTe nanoparticles2.

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  1. Bart Kahr and Alexander G. Shtukenberg are in the Department of Chemistry and Molecular Design Institute, New York University, New York City, New York 10003, USA,

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Kahr, B., Shtukenberg, A. Enantioselective photoactivation. Nature Mater 14, 21–22 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4174

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