The piezochiral effect

TL;DR - Researchers introduce the piezochiral effect, in which mechanical strain controls a material’s chirality. It could enable mechanically tunable technologies in photonics, spintronics, biosensing, and quantum information.

• Establishes a new strain-responsive functionality alongside piezoelectricity and piezomagnetism.
• Links applied mechanical strain to controllable changes in chirality.
• Suggests applications requiring tunable chiral responses across optical, electronic, sensing, and quantum systems.