{"id":193959,"date":"2024-08-02T22:29:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T03:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/45-year-old-theory-confirmed-physicists-shed-new-light-on-the-invisible-energy-states-of-molecules"},"modified":"2024-08-02T22:29:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T03:29:24","slug":"45-year-old-theory-confirmed-physicists-shed-new-light-on-the-invisible-energy-states-of-molecules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/45-year-old-theory-confirmed-physicists-shed-new-light-on-the-invisible-energy-states-of-molecules","title":{"rendered":"45-Year-Old Theory Confirmed: Physicists Shed New Light on the \u201cInvisible\u201d Energy States of Molecules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/45-year-old-theory-confirmed-physicists-shed-new-light-on-the-invisible-energy-states-of-molecules3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Artistic representation of hyper-Raman optical activity: twisted light (red helices) incident on molecules arranged on a helical scaffold (white dots) produce hyper-Raman scattering spectra (multicoloured light patches) that express \u2018chirality\u2019 (patches in spiral patterns and broken mirror). Credit: Ventsislav Valev and Kylian ValevAn international team of scientists, led by physicists from the University of Bath, has demonstrated a new optical phenomenon that could significantly impact various fields, including pharmaceutical science, security, forensics, environmental science, art conservation, and medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Molecules rotate and vibrate in very specific ways. When light shines on them it bounces and scatters. For every million light particles (photons), a single one changes colour. This change is the Raman effect. Collecting many of these color-changing photons paints a picture of the energy states of molecules and identifies them.<\/p>\n<p>Yet some molecular features (energy states) are invisible to the Raman effect. To reveal them and paint a more complete picture, \u2018hyper-Raman\u2019 is needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artistic representation of hyper-Raman optical activity: twisted light (red helices) incident on molecules arranged on a helical scaffold (white dots) produce hyper-Raman scattering spectra (multicoloured light patches) that express \u2018chirality\u2019 (patches in spiral patterns and broken mirror). Credit: Ventsislav Valev and Kylian ValevAn international team of scientists, led by physicists from the University of Bath, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193959","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=193959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}