Scientists from Germany, Japan, and India have demonstrated that femtosecond laser pulses can force an entire layer of molecules to rotate in unison on a two-dimensional quantum material, a result ...

Researchers from Germany, Japan and India, led by scientists from DESY and the Universities of Kiel and Hamburg, have found a way to collectively make molecules on a flat surface rotate by exposing ...

A newly designed optical centrifuge allows scientists to control molecular rotation inside superfluid helium nano-droplets.

Optical rotation is a fundamental phenomenon observed when plane-polarised light traverses chiral media. This intrinsic property of chiral molecules renders them capable of rotating the plane of ...

Researchers developed a new method that allows, for the first time, to elucidate the chiral structure of molecules -- the exact spatial arrangement of the atoms -- by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) ...

Physicists at the University of British Columbia sent a laser beam of an optical centrifuge into helium nano-droplets doped with dimers of nitric oxide in order to control and study their rotation ...

A key objective of ongoing research rooted in molecular physics is to understand and precisely control chemical reactions at very low temperatures. At low temperatures, the chemical reactions between ...

Phenylene rings of the clutch-stacked triaryltriazine molecular gears rotate 180°, perpendicular to the molecular plane, interacting with phenylene rings of neighboring molecules in a gear-like ...

(Nanowerk News) Light-driven molecular motors were first developed nearly 25 years ago at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. This resulted in a shared Nobel Prize for Chemistry for ...

Centrifuge enables researchers to control the rotation of molecules suspended in liquid helium nano-droplets, bringing them a step closer to demystifying the behaviour of exotic, frictionless ...