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In search of molecular movies

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Ultrafast chemical physics follows in the explosive wake of technological innovation, using light and radiation sources to study phenomena at timescales where the boundaries between physics and chemistry dissolve. UCP 2011, the second meeting in a series, explored the current state of the art in ultrafast time-resolved spectroscopy.

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Figure 1: Examples of the systems under scrutiny at the Ultrafast Chemical Physics 2011 meeting.

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Weinstein, J., Hunt, N. In search of molecular movies. Nature Chem 4, 157–158 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1282

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