title: Doped nematic phases: a tool for amplifying and detecting chirality.
abstract: Doping nematic liquid crystals with non-racemic chiral compounds induces twisted nematics (cholesteric phases). This phenomenon allows the detection via spectroscopic or non-spectroscopic methods of chiral compounds through the detection (and eventually quantification) of the macroscopic induced cholesteric twist.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, New York University, NY 10003, USA.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Proni
authors.forename: G P
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Spada