Brian P. Bloom

Brian P. Bloom is the lead author of the CISS review published in Chem. Rev. 124, 1950, titled "Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity." The source digest reproduces the review's abstract and links a PDF hosted on the source server.

Framing contributed by the review

The review frames CISS as "the innate ability of chiral materials to act as spin filters for electron transport," and notes that more recent experiments demonstrate that displacement currents arising from charge polarization of chiral molecules lead to spin polarization without the need for net charge flow. It covers methods for measuring CISS, an overview of molecules and materials known to exhibit CISS-based phenomena, structure–property relations, leading theoretical models, implications in physics, chemistry and biology, and closes with a critical assessment of the field and comments on its future outlook.

The review states that since the initial landmark study in 1999, considerable experimental and theoretical effort has gone into understanding the physical underpinnings and mechanistic features of the phenomenon, and that CISS promises profound and ubiquitous implications for existing technologies and for questions such as the homochiral nature of life.