Study suggests a flaw in traditional theory that describes photodissociation process
Thursday, July 7, 2016 - 07:41
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org)—A combined team of researchers from Columbia University in the U.S. and the University of Warsaw in Poland has found that there appear to be flaws in traditional theory that describe how photodissociation works. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the team describes how they took a different approach to studying what happens when light causes molecules to break apart and what they observed by doing so. David Chandler with Sandia National Laboratories offers a historical perspective and an analysis of the work done by the team in a News & Views piece in the same journal issue.