Molecular physicists from Radboud University Nijmegen have
produced images of the changes in direction of colliding nitrogen
monoxide molecules (NO) with unprecedented sharpness.
By combining a
Stark decelerator with advanced imaging techniques, they were able to
obtain very high resolution images of the collision processes.
The
results were published in Nature Chemistry on 9 February.
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| Visualisation of the collisions between NO and helium (left) and NO and neon (right). The top images show the research results of Van de Meerakker and his colleagues; the bottom images show the visualised theoretical predictions of the collisions. Red indicates a high probability of change of direction; blue indicates a low probability. The small peaks show the diffraction oscillations (Credits: Image Courtesy of Nature Chemistry). |
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