Left- and right-handed helical molecules form mirror-image chiral crystals on a copper substrate. It seems that the substrate and the molecules work in concert to determine the handedness of the crystal domains.
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Ward, M. Organic films with a twist. Nature 426, 615–616 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/426615a
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