A key objective of ongoing research rooted in molecular physics is to understand and precisely control chemical reactions at very low temperatures. At low temperatures, the chemical reactions between ...

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Purdue researchers developed a mass spectrometry system that accelerates chemical reactions without heat or catalysts, ...

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Gas-phase ion–molecule reaction dynamics examine how charged species interact with neutral molecules under isolated conditions, revealing fundamental pathways that govern chemical reactivity in ...

Leo Gross is a physicist who has devoted his career to studying the fundamental secrets of chemistry—that is, how atoms and molecules behave and interact with one another. As leader of IBM’s atom and ...

(Nanowerk News) Physicists are getting closer to controlling single-molecule chemical reactions – could this shape the future of pharmaceutical research? Controlling matter at the atomic level has ...

The idea that you can take two different radicals and get them to react with one another without losing stereochemistry, ...

A failing tank holding 7,000 gallons of a highly reactive chemical at a Garden Grove aerospace plant forced 50,000 ...