Our lives are governed by submicroscopic processes in the nanocosmos. Indeed many natural phenomena begin with a minuscule shift in the states of atoms or molecules, triggered by radiation. One such process has now been elucidated by a team led by Prof. Matthias Kling and Dr. Boris Bergues at the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics (LAP), which is jointly run by Ludwig-Maximilians Universität (LMU) and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ). The group studied how molecules that were attached to the surface of nanoparticles responded to irradiation with light. Light-induced molecular processes on nanoparticles play an important role in atmospheric chemistry, and can ultimately influence our climate.
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Source: Phys.org