An eye-opening explosion

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25250/thescbr.brk663

Keywords:

Coulomb explosion, Ultrafast imaging, Free-Electron Lasers, Molecular Movies

Abstract

Have you ever wondered how plants make use of sunlight to do photosynthesis? What happens inside your eye such that your brain can perceive your smartphone screen or your coffee cup? It turns out this is eventually triggered by tiny rearrangements of individual atoms. Our aim is to develop an imaging method sensitive enough to watch such processes in single molecules on the atomic level.

Original article reference

Boll, R., Schäfer, J. M., Richard, B., Fehre, K., Kastirke, G., Jurek, Z., Schöffler, M. S., Abdullah, M. M., Anders, N., Baumann, T. M., Eckart, S., Erk, B., de Fanis, A., Dörner, R., Grundmann, S., Grychtol, P., Hartung, A., Hofmann, M., Ilchen, M., … Jahnke, T. (2022). X-ray multiphoton-induced Coulomb explosion images complex single molecules. Nature Physics, 18(4), 423–428. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01507-0

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Published

2022-12-19

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 4 (2022)

Section

Maths, Physics & Chemistry

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