Woohoo! An epic evening at #ImperialCollege celebrating all things #nano. The #ChiralCrew explored how chiral objects can twist light and control electron spin. 🌀💜 #SciComm
Prof Sandrine Heutz, Head of the Department of #MaterialsScience at #ImperialCollege , spoke about the intersection of #science and #art with artist Marianna Soukeras. This art was was made with Sandrine’s go-to molecule: #phthalocyanine 💙 Watch Sandrine’s inaugural lecture here! https://youtu.be/wuLmx1p7thE #SciComm
We had some super cool demonstrations of optical rotation (the rotation of the plane of polarisation of linearly polarised light as it passes through a #chiral molecule). Here’s light twisting through sucrose and fructose! 🌀🌈 I’ll paste the tweet to avoid overloading #ScienceMastodon’s servers https://twitter.com/jesswade/status/1593358274052644871
@jesswade I’m sure you’ve seen it, but there’s a really cool demo where polarized light is shone up through the bottom of a column of glucose solution and viewed from the side. I can’t remember if the view from the side is also through a polarizer but I suspect so. Anyway, you get this cool spiral rainbow effect… You can see it towards the end of this video:
