Hydrogen bonding in ammonia clusters is a subject which has garnered increasing attention due to its fundamental role in defining the structural and dynamic properties of molecular aggregates. Unlike ...

When heated with a burst of laser light, hydrogen bonds between water molecules shorten briefly. The work sheds new light on the structure of water. (Greg Stewart/SLAC) Water is the most abundant yet ...

Irradiating ammonia – which is made up of one nitrogen and three hydrogens – with ultraviolet light causes one hydrogen to dissociate from the ammonia. SLAC researchers used an ultrafast “electron ...

Chemists have demonstrated characteristics of a phenomenon called quantum tunneling by using a very large electric field to alter the ability of ammonia molecules to switch between the normal and ...

Laser pulses that can shred ammonia molecules dissolved in water may offer a way to generate hydrogen gas without using heat, pressure, or catalysts (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c13459) ...