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Researchers have discovered that achiral materials, specifically achiral plasmonic metasurfaces, can absorb light differently based on the handedness of the wavefront of light. This finding challenges previous assumptions about the optical properties of achiral materials.
Researchers have made a discovery that changes what we know about light and materials. They found that engineered achiral (symmetric) materials, called achiral plasmonic metasurfaces, can absorb light differently depending on the handedness of the wavefront of light. This was surprising because, for years, such materials were found to be indifferent to any optical probes and does not show such selective absorption.