Electron camera captures ring-shaped molecule opening Research involving Dr Adam Kirrander that produces visualisations of molecular reactions, carried out at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California, has been published in Nature Chemistry. The research involved using an ultrafast electron diffraction instrument to produce a high-resolution "molecular movie" showing strucutral changes in a molecule during a reaction. The research will help in refining the predictive power of simulations and also improve our understanding of some fundamental chemical reactions. The research was carried out by researchers from teh University of York, UK; University of Nebraska-Lincoln; University of Potsdam, Germany; University of Edinburgh, UK; and Brown University. Large parts of this work were financially supported by the DOE Office of Science. SLAC's MeV-UED instrument is part of LCLS, a DOE Office of Science user facility. More Information The paper on Nature's website Publication date 17 Apr, 2019
