The notion of handedness or chirality (Greek for “hand”) is ubiquitous in chemistry, biology and physics. In quantum field theory, all massless particles (e.g. neutrinos) are chiral. The left- and right-handed populations are independent and never mix (Fig. A). However, inter-conversion occurs once electromagnetic fields are turned on.
On November 10 and 17, 2015, 18 teachers visited the Princeton Center for Complex Materials as part of Teacher Prep's program to learn about materials science and how to apply it to the classroom. This unique PCCM program is part of a larger "Teachers as Scholars" initiative as part of Princeton University's Teacher Preparation program.
In 2015, the University of Minnesota MRSEC expanded its American Indian Outreach activities with the inaugural American Indian Visit Day.
The nanoscale structures of liquid crystals are rarely more exotic than that of the sponge phases of bent-core molecules, visualized here in an electron microscope image made by researchers at the Liquid Crystal Materials
Turning the Tables on Mentoring
