Spin-directed Chiral Symmetry Breaking

Chemistry seminar by Yves Geerts, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

Hosted by Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)

September 24, 2026: Thursday 11:00 Vienna (GMT+2)

Ended

Seminar Room C | Moonstone, ISTA

Abstract

Chemistry seminar by Prof. Yves Geerts (Université Libre de Bruxelles) on historical attempts by Pasteur and Curie to direct chiral symmetry breaking with external fields, why they failed, and how chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) under non-equilibrium conditions now enables enantiomer separation and control of molecular handedness.

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chiralityCISSspin selectivity

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