Browse Physics

Placing a water molecule inside a 60-carbon-atom cage creates a structure that can be guided by an electric field.

Femtosecond laser spectroscopy can identify otherwise inaccessible precursors in photoinduced chemical reactions.

Water dimers have been detected in room-temperature water vapor, a key step toward understanding their effect on solar absorption and chemistry in the atmosphere.

Surface-sensitive spectroscopy reveals the microscopic structure of the water-vapor interface and its dependence on nuclear quantum effects.

Frictional forces between surfaces coated with charged polymers can be adjusted with external electric fields.

An improved equation for electrochemical cells accurately captures processes in desalination and generation of electricity from salt gradients in the ocean.

Experiments show that the times required to cross the barrier for the folding and unfolding of different nucleic acids are consistently about a few microseconds, despite many orders of magnitude differences in rate coefficients.

Single atoms deposited on an iron oxide surface provide a valuable model system for studying catalysis.