Several experiments have been performed to probe the enantiospecific properties of chiral single crystal surfaces. The surfaces chosen have been the (643) planes of Ag and Cu, both face centered cubic structures. The chirality of these surfaces arises from the handedness of their kinked step structures. These structures are such that the (643) and the (643) surfaces are related by mirror symmet...

Since their discovery in 1888 by the botanist Friedrich Reinitzer, who studied the melting behavior of cholesteryl benzoates, liquid crystals have developed from a mere curiosity to a highly interdisciplinary research field, with LC displays being the most important application to date [1,2]. However, besides the use of thermotropic liquid crystals for display technology many other applications...