Movies of electrons

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(Nanowerk News) In a paper published in the latest issue of Nature Photonics ("High-energy pulse synthesis with sub-cycle waveform control for strong-field physics"), an international team of researchers takes an important step toward giving physicists the ability to effectively make movies of individual electrons. If the approach pans out, it would provide a way to gather data of unprecedented detail about how individual molecules interact during chemical reactions, with ramifications for not only the basic sciences but chemical engineering and pharmaceutical research as well.