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  "path": "/news/2026-04-gen-semiconductors-life-handedness.html",
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  "textContent": "A University at Buffalo-led team has found a way to help chiral semiconductors, electronic materials whose structures are left- or right-handed like many of life's building blocks, absorb visible light. In a study published in Nature Communications, researchers chemically combined a chiral semiconducting material with a non-chiral molecule that more readily absorbs visible light. The result is a new material system that can both absorb visible light and distinguish between left- and right-handed light waves, opening new possibilities for optoelectronic technologies.",
  "title": "Next-gen semiconductors that share life's handedness just got more practical"
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