How to teach gold to tell left from right

1/2 images Noelia Barrabés Chemikerin Noelia Barrabés Chemikerin Noelia Barrabés - The chemist Noelia Barrabés from the TU Wien was awarded an Elise-Richter scholarship. She is conducting research in catalysis with ultra-small gold clusters. Nanometer-sized gold particles consisting of only a few atoms can be used as catalysts for important chemical reactions. Noelia Barrabés from the Institute of Materials Chemistry at TU Wien has been researching new methods of adapting and precisely controlling such tiny gold clusters for years. Now she has been awarded an Elise-Richter scholarship. With this scholarship, she will now use gold clusters to solve a particularly difficult chemical problem: Some molecules exist in two different configurations, one being the mirror image of the other, with right and left side reversed. Normally, it is extremely difficult to produce only one of these two variants.