Tracking Energy Flow in Liquid Reaction Dynamics

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Results from one of the molecular dynamics simulations in the paper, showing a 400-fs time trace of the atomic nuclei. Motion of the liquid is shown in blue, and DF in white. The interlaced starlike shapes arise from significant vibrational excitation in the newly formed DF

Today’s issue of Science contains a report that I wrote along with colleagues at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK) and Heriot-Watt University (UK), providing atomically-resolved detail describing how a chemical reaction happens in a liquid.
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