A team of chemists and physicists at Aarhus University, in Denmark, working with a colleague from Universitat de Barcelona, in Spain, has recorded atom-by-atom solvation for the first time. In their study, published in the journal Nature, the group designed a process to manipulate sodium and xenon atoms with a droplet of helium at very cold temperatures to capture what they describe as snapshots of the solvation process over time. Combined, these produce a movie depicting the action. A Research Briefing on the work has been published in the same journal issue.
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