{"id":182796,"date":"2024-02-16T01:24:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T07:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/scientists-report-first-look-at-electrons-moving-in-real-time-in-liquid-water"},"modified":"2024-02-16T01:24:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T07:24:21","slug":"scientists-report-first-look-at-electrons-moving-in-real-time-in-liquid-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/scientists-report-first-look-at-electrons-moving-in-real-time-in-liquid-water","title":{"rendered":"Scientists report first look at electrons moving in real-time in liquid water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-report-first-look-at-electrons-moving-in-real-time-in-liquid-water.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an experiment akin to stop-motion photography, scientists have isolated the energetic movement of an electron while \u201cfreezing\u201d the motion of the much larger atom it orbits in a sample of liquid water.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adn6059\">findings<\/a>, reported in the journal <i>Science<\/i>, provide a new window into the electronic structure of molecules in the liquid phase on a timescale previously unattainable with X-rays. The new technique reveals the immediate electronic response when a target is hit with an X-ray, an important step in understanding the effects of radiation exposure on objects and people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chemical+reactions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical reactions<\/a> induced by radiation that we want to study are the result of the electronic response of the target that happens on the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/attosecond\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">attosecond<\/a> timescale,\u201d said Linda Young, a senior author of the research and Distinguished Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an experiment akin to stop-motion photography, scientists have isolated the energetic movement of an electron while \u201cfreezing\u201d the motion of the much larger atom it orbits in a sample of liquid water. The findings, reported in the journal Science, provide a new window into the electronic structure of molecules in the liquid phase on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}