RESEARCH FIELD

Femtochemistry

Femtochemistry captures chemical reactions in real time at the femtosecond timescale—the timescale of molecular bond breaking and formation. Pioneered by Ahmed Zewail with ultrafast laser spectroscopy, the field has expanded to attosecond science, probing electron dynamics within individual atomic shells. X-ray free electron lasers like the European XFEL enable serial femtosecond crystallography, capturing protein structural changes during catalysis in molecular movies. Ultrafast spectroscopy is revealing the quantum coherence phenomena underlying photosynthetic energy transfer, vision, and singlet fission for solar cells. Femtochemistry underpins rational design of photochemical reactions in industrial and pharmaceutical synthesis.

RESEARCHERS

5,200

AVG FUNDING

$720K

SUBFIELDS

TOP INSTITUTIONS

Caltech (Zewail Lab legacy)

Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

DESY Hamburg

ETH Zürich

SUBFIELDS

Transition State Spectroscopy Ultrafast Photochemistry Reaction Dynamics Attosecond Science Time-Resolved Crystallography

KEY TECHNOLOGIES

Ultrafast Laser Pulses

Pump-Probe Spectroscopy

Free Electron Lasers

Transient Absorption

Time-Resolved X-Ray Diffraction

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