{"id":192383,"date":"2024-07-05T18:24:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T23:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/researchers-pioneer-new-methods-in-ultrafast-science-for-sharper-molecular-movies"},"modified":"2024-07-05T18:24:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T23:24:24","slug":"researchers-pioneer-new-methods-in-ultrafast-science-for-sharper-molecular-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/researchers-pioneer-new-methods-in-ultrafast-science-for-sharper-molecular-movies","title":{"rendered":"Researchers pioneer new methods in ultrafast science for sharper molecular movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-pioneer-new-methods-in-ultrafast-science-for-sharper-molecular-movies3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine being able to watch the inner workings of a chemical reaction or a material as it changes and reacts to its environment\u2014that\u2019s the sort of thing researchers can do with a high-speed \u201celectron camera\u201d called the Megaelectronvolt Ultrafast Electron Diffraction (MeV-UED) instrument at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in two new studies, researchers from SLAC, Stanford and other institutions have figured out how to capture those tiny, ultrafast details with more accuracy and efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.aip.org\/aca\/sdy\/article\/11\/2\/024311\/3284369\/Improved-temporal-resolution-in-ultrafast-electron\" target=\"_blank\">first study<\/a>, recently published in <i>Structural Dynamics<\/i>, one team invented a technique to improve <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/time+resolution\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">time resolution<\/a> for the electron camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine being able to watch the inner workings of a chemical reaction or a material as it changes and reacts to its environment\u2014that\u2019s the sort of thing researchers can do with a high-speed \u201celectron camera\u201d called the Megaelectronvolt Ultrafast Electron Diffraction (MeV-UED) instrument at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the U.S. Department of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192383","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=192383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}