Spin based properties, applications, and devices are commonly related to magnetic effects and to magnetic materials. Hence, most of the development in spintronics is currently based on inorganic materials. Despite the fact that the magnetoresistance effect has been observed in organic materials, until now spin selectivity of organic based spintronics devices originated from an inorganic ferromagnetic electrode and was not determined by the organic molecules themselves. In several studies, however, it was found that chiral organic molecules can act as spin filter for photoelectrons transmission, in electron transfer, and in electron transport.  

Results will be presented from several recent experiments demonstrating chiral based spintronics devices and some implications and applications will be discussed.