Catching a Glimpse of the Reactive Intermediates in Water in a Trillionth of a Second (IMAGE)
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Top: The ultrafast electron diffraction system used to capture reactive transient structures in ionized water. Bottom: Ionization of liquid water and the formation of solvated hydronium, hydroxyl radical and electron, followed by thermalization.
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Image courtesy of Lin et al., Imaging the short-lived hydroxyl-hydronium pair in ionized liquid water. Science, 374, 92–95 (2021).
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Image courtesy of Lin et al., Imaging the short-lived hydroxyl-hydronium pair in ionized liquid water. Science, 374, 92–95 (2021).
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