#Elucidating how asymmetry confers chemical properties
“#Elucidating how asymmetry confers chemical properties” Credit: CC0 Public Domain You’ve heard the expression ‘form follows function’? In materials science, function follows form. New research by Carnegie’s Olivier Gagné and collaborator Frank Hawthorne of the University of Manitoba categorizes the causes of structural asymmetry, some surprising, which underpin useful properties of crystals, including ferroelectricity, photoluminescence,…