Dr. Pan from the University of IL has developed chirally active carbon nanoparticles that have shown to be highly enantioselective adsorbants. This technology is very useful for separating racemic mixtures when a specific enantiomer is targeted. 

This technology is a cost effective means of chiral resolution which does not suffer from the toxicity and reactivity issues that other chiral nanoparticles do. 

Publication: 
Guru Raja Vulugundam, Santosh K. Misra, Fatemeh Ostadhossein, Aaron S. Schwartz-Duval, Enrique A. Daza, Dipanjan Pan: "(-)/(+)-Sparteine Induced Chirally-active Carbon Nanoparticles for Enantioselective Separation of Racemic Mixtures", Chem. Commun., May 16, 2016.