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'Molecular movie' captures chemical reaction on atomic scale

'Molecular movie' captures chemical reaction on atomic scale

6 years ago
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https://phys.org/news/2018-07-ultra-high-speed-electron-camera-molecules-crossroads.html

The researchers precisely recorded how the atomic nuclei and chemical bonds of a five-atom molecule responded when being struck by a laser. Appearing in the June 6 edition of the journal Science, the team's study marks the culmination of a years-long effort to advance the quality of "molecular movies" from that of a rudimentary stop-motion animation to a high-definition motion picture.

"People have been modeling these things for a long time, but there was really no good way to test if these models were correct," said Nebraska's Martin Centurion, a Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of physics and astronomy. "There is now a way to compare, in detail, what is happening experimentally with what our models would predict.