A team of researchers from Ernest Orlando Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory, the University of California,
Berkeley, the University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, the University
of Washington and the Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute has found
that reaction kinetics are the factors that drive chiral
nanocrystal formation in tellurium atoms. In their paper published
in the journal Science, the group describes preparing Te crystals
in different ways and then watched what happened to them under a
microscope. Inna Popov with the Center for Nanoscience and
Nanotechnology, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has
published a Perspectives piece in the same journal issue outlining
recent research into the means by which chiral compounds form
chiral crystal shapes and also gives an overview of the work done
by the team in this new effort.
