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The piezochiral effect

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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.

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The piezochiral effect

Nature Z. Zeng, M. Först, M. Fechner, X. Deng, A. Cavalleri, P. G. Radaelli 2026-07-29 doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10845-5
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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.
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