The seminal work on CISS dates back to 1999 (Science 283, 814), in which Waldeck and Naaman observed that the transmission yield of spin-polarized electrons through chiral Langmuir-Blodgett films depends on the handedness of the molecular film. Since that time, CISS has been reported in electron transport and electron transmission experiments for insulators, semiconductors, and metals. More than a hundred research groups across the world are exploring the properties of CISS and investigating its implications in disciplines ranging from Biology, Chemistry, and Physics to engineering and medicine. Our group is elucidating the fundamental properties responsible for CISS in an effort to provide quantitative data that is useful for guiding theoretical descriptions.


Recent Reviews on CISS
  1. Naaman, R.; Waldeck, D. H. What Can CISS Teach us about Electron Transfer? J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2024, 15, 11002.
  2. Bloom, B. P.; Chen, Z.; Lu, H.; Waldeck, D. H. A Chemical Perspective on the Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity Effect. Natl. Sci. Rev. 2024, 11, nwae212.
  3. Bloom, B. P.; Paltiel, Y.; Naaman, R.; Waldeck, D. H. Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity Chem. Rev. 2024, 124, 1950.
  4. Naaman, R.; Waldeck, D. H.; Fransson, J. New Perspective on Electron Transfer through Molecules J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2022, 13, 11753.
  5. Waldeck, D. H.; Naaman, R.; Paltiel, Y. The Spin Selectivity Effect in Chiral Materials APL. Mater. 2021, 9, 040902
  6. Naaman, R.; Paltiel, Y.; Waldeck, D. H. Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity Gives a New Twist on Spin-control in Chemistry. Acc. Chem. Res. 2020, 53, 2659.
  7. Naaman, R.; Paltiel, Y.; Waldeck, D. H. Chiral Molecules and the Spin Selectivity Effect J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2020, 11, 3660.