Chiral Surface Systems:
Synthesis of Structure and Symmetry
Surfaces can possess the property of chirality - that is, exist in two
non-superimposable mirror-image forms - and such surfaces have the
capability of directing physical or chemical phenomena to occur in an
asymmetric manner. This can be achieved by adsorption of chiral modifiers
or (less frequently) by the use of intrinsically chiral surfaces.
In particular, kink-free chiral surfaces (only achievable in bcc
substrates) are expected to be stable against roughening, and should
therefore provide excellent substrates for detailed studies of asymmetric
surface chemistry. We focus on the adsorption of simple chiral and
prochiral molecules on achiral and chiral substrates, with a view towards
demonstrating asymmetric effects.
Surface Chirality Project Personnel
Related techniques
Fibre-Optic Low Energy Electron Diffraction (FO-LEED)
Reflection Absorption Infra-Red Spectroscopy (RAIRS)
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM)
Density Functional Theory (DFT)
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