Structural Chirality from Short-Range Order in Heteroanionic Materials

Established routes to structural chirality in inorganic crystals depend on symmetry-lowering atomic displacements of an achiral parent structure.

Established routes to structural chirality in inorganic crystals depend on symmetry-lowering atomic displacements of an achiral parent structure. We show that chirality can instead be forced by the ordering of two anion species over the sites of an achiral parent, independent of…