![A gas-phase X-Ray scattering experiment captures cyclopentadiene rapidly transforming into the strained bicyclo[2.1.0]pentene. This structure change is triggered by a pump pulse (blue) and detected through X-ray scattering (yellow).](/-/media/bes/csgb/images/highlights-of-progress/2024/lcls_cover_jpcl_final_full.jpg?h=444&w=1000&la=en&hash=07296099B8FD08CA6BECE0CCDF495E4D59198617B88395AF5B2F168D342FB0F4)
Ultrafast X-ray experiments provide direct evidence that interaction of light with a hydrocarbon molecule produces strained molecular rings.
Years of basic scientific research crosscutting multiple disciplines produces new information on the nanoscale complexities of shale.
Scientists examine how molecular systems made of nanocrystals and proteins support the production of ammonia using light.
Opposing teams of water-loving and oil-loving molecules separate metals called lanthanides that are important in developing clean energy technologies.
A new correction factor for predicting dissolution rates uses measurable geological properties in fractured media.
A new experiment determines the energy available to drive chemical reactions at the interface between an illuminated semiconductor and a liquid solution.
Ligand design and electrochemical studies pave a new path toward stable high-valent mid-actinide complexes.
A molecule found in combustion on Earth and surrounding some stars can lead to the formation of an important organic hydrocarbon.
Scientists illuminate the quantum dynamics of electrons in highly excited molecules.
Researchers used ultrafast electron diffraction to image the structure of the pericyclic minimum, the “transition state” of electrocyclic reactions.
Scientists image the complete set of light-induced quantum states in 2-D crystals of tungsten disulfide and reveal the mechanisms coupling these states.
Researchers find that different conformers of a type of atmospheric molecular intermediates react differently with the pollutant dimethyl amine.
