Chiral Matter - Proceedings of the Nobel Symposium 167 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9811265054 ISBN 13: 9789811265051

Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc, 2023

Synopsis

A geometric figure has chirality, or handedness, if its mirror image cannot be brought to coincide with itself. The concept of chirality was instrumental in establishing the tetrahedral valences of the carbon atom, and has continued to play a key role in chemistry and molecular biology ever since.The fact that living organisms use only one of two mirror isomers of such molecules as amino acids and sugars, that is, the question of the origin of homochirality of the molecular basis of life, remains an unsolved problem of the same dignity as the origin of dark matter and dark energy.The increasing importance of chirality and topology in condensed matter physics and chemistry, and the production of new states of matter in heavy-ion collisions, have brought the concept of chirality into physics and cosmology in a tangible way while at the same time expanded the physics/chemistry interface. The book is the first to address all aspects of chirality in a single volume.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9811265054
• ISBN 13: 9789811265051
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 268
• Editor: Babaev Egor, Kharzeev Dmitri, Larsson Mats, Molochkov Alexander, Zhaunerchyk Vitali