Research on surface chirality is motivated by the need to develop functional chiral surfaces
for enantiospecific applications. While molecular chirality in 3D has been the subject of study …

Understanding the bio-physical–chemical interactions at nanostructured biointerfaces and
the assembly mechanisms of so-called hybrid nano-composites is nowadays a key issue for …

The homochirality of biomolecules is a signature of life on Earth and has significant
implications in, for example, the production of pharmaceutical compounds. It has been …

Parallel-displaced π− π stacking interactions have been known to be the dominant force in
stabilizing the double helical structure of DNA and the tertiary structure of proteins. However …

We have determined the structures of dense adlayers of glycine and alanine on the Cu (110)
and Cu (100) surfaces using plane wave density functional theory. These calculations …

N 1s and O 1s scanned-energy mode photoelectron diffraction (PhD) has been used to
investigate the local structure of a single enantiomer of deprotonated alanine, alaninate …

Establishing the nanoscale details of organized amino acid assemblies at surfaces is a
major challenge in the field of organic− inorganic interfaces. Here, we show that the dense …

Reflection–absorption infrared spectroscopy (RAIRS) has been used to characterise the
interaction of standard and fully deuterated glycine with Cu (100) and Cu (111). RAIRS …

Amino acids find their feet: Scanning tunneling microscopy of racemic (R, S)‐proline on Cu
(110) reveals rows of random chiral amino acid sequences, showing that organization is not …

The self-assembly of l-tryptophan on Cu (111) is investigated by an ultrahigh vacuum
scanning tunneling microscope (STM) at 4.4 K. When deposited onto the substrate at around …