{"id":239221,"date":"2026-06-18T06:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/reversible-chirality-switching-in-mos%e2%82%82-generates-spin-currents-without-magnets"},"modified":"2026-06-18T06:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:20:17","slug":"reversible-chirality-switching-in-mos%e2%82%82-generates-spin-currents-without-magnets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/reversible-chirality-switching-in-mos%e2%82%82-generates-spin-currents-without-magnets","title":{"rendered":"Reversible chirality switching in MoS\u2082 generates spin currents without magnets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/reversible-chirality-switching-in-mose28282-generates-spin-currents-without-magnets.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A newly developed method allows researchers to dynamically switch chirality\u2014a particular lack of mirror symmetry\u2014to generate spin currents in semiconductors, researchers from Science Tokyo report. Their approach relies on the reversible insertion and removal of small chiral molecules from the interlayer gaps of a layered, nonchiral semiconductor material using electrochemistry.<\/p>\n<p>The findings could pave the way for the development of novel chiral spintronic materials and technologies that do not rely on magnets or magnetic fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly developed method allows researchers to dynamically switch chirality\u2014a particular lack of mirror symmetry\u2014to generate spin currents in semiconductors, researchers from Science Tokyo report. Their approach relies on the reversible insertion and removal of small chiral molecules from the interlayer gaps of a layered, nonchiral semiconductor material using electrochemistry. The findings could pave the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}