In the present review we survey the main advances made in recent years on the
understanding of chemical chirality at solid surfaces. Chirality is an important topic, made …

Chiral surfaces are critical components of enantioselective heterogeneous processes such
as those used to prepare enantiomerically pure pharmaceuticals. While the majority of chiral …

As a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature, chirality plays a pivotal role in a variety of biological
and physiological processes. The construction of chiral interfaces and exploration of their …

Surfaces of achiral materials exhibit two-dimensional chirality if they lack mirror symmetry.
An example is the (643) surface of face-centered-cubic metals such as Au. The (643) and …

In surface science, research traditionally employs macroscopically flat surfaces of single
crystals. Curved surfaces have been applied more sporadically, but their history stretches …

Enantiospecific heterogeneous catalysis utilizes chiral surfaces to resolve enantiomers via
structure sensitive surface chemistry. The catalyst design challenge is the identification of …

The origin of the enantiospecific decomposition of L-and D-tartaric acid on chiral Cu
surfaces is elucidated on a structure-spread domed Cu (110) crystal by spatially resolved …

Surface explosion reactions have highly nonlinear reaction kinetics that exhibit
autoacceleration under isothermal conditions. These can lead to phenomena such as …

Chirality, also known as handedness, is one of the most widespread and intriguing
properties in nature, touching upon various fields including physics, chemistry, biology …

Decomposition of tartaric acid (TA, HO2CCH (OH) CH (OH) CO2H) and aspartic acid (Asp,
HO2CCH (NH2) CH2CO2H) on Cu surfaces occurs via a vacancy-mediated surface …