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October 2016
Posted at: 21 Oct 2016
Molecular selfie reveals how a chemical bond breaks: Proton is seen escaping the molecule

Can molecules take pictures of themselves? That is more or less the principle underlying laser-induced electron diffraction (LIED): A laser field strips an electron from a molecule and then sends it back to report on the structure of the remaining ion. Wolter et al. applied this technique to acetylene to track the

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October 2016