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SUMMARY:Physical and Chemical Aspects of Surface Chirality - Professor Ste
 phen Jenkins\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20190116T141500Z
DTEND:20190116T151500Z
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CONTACT:Lisa Masters
DESCRIPTION:Chiral objects are those that can exist in one of two mirror-i
 mage\nforms\, in just the same way that the human hand comes in both right
 -\nand left-handed varieties. The chirality of an object can alter its\nin
 teractions with other chiral objects\, with effects ranging from\nthe exqu
 isitely subtle to the fundamentally profound. Over the past\ntwo decades\,
  a great deal of progress has been made towards an\nunderstanding of the v
 arious ways in which chirality at surfaces\ncan influence the chemistry th
 at takes place on them. A key theme\nhas been the propagation of asymmetry
  from the length-scale of a\nsingle molecule\, through that of the molecul
 e's local environment\,\nup to that of an extended supra-molecular network
 . Rather less\nattention has been paid to the physics of chiral surfaces\,
  despite\nthe fact that mechanical\, optical\, magnetic and electronic asp
 ects\nof the surface are all likely to be influenced by structural asymmet
 ry.\nThis talk aims not only to provide an overview of achievements in chi
 ral\nsurface physics and chemistry\, but also to point towards the challen
 ges\nand opportunities associated with bringing these two fields together.
LOCATION:Department of Chemistry\, Cambridge\, Unilever lecture theatre
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