https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/s10053-021-00155-y
Topical Review - Molecular Physics and Chemical Physics
Roadmap on dynamics of molecules and clusters in the gas phase
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Department of Physics, Stockholm University, 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
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Normandie Univ, ENSICAEN, UNICAEN, CEA, CNRS, CIMAP, 14000, Caen, France
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Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG, Groningen, The Netherlands
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CNR-ISM, Area della Ricerca Roma1, Monterotondo Scalo, Italy
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Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias, Módulo 13, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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Condensed Matter Physics Center (IFIMAC), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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Institute for Advanced Research in Chemical Sciences (IAdChem), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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Department of Theoretical Physics and Quantum Information, Gdańsk University of Technology, Narutowicza 11/12, 80-233, Gdańsk, Poland
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Institute of Physics, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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Department of Physics, Lund University, P.O. Box 118, 22100, Lund, Sweden
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Department of Physics, University of Gothenburg, Origovägen 6B, 41296, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607, Hamburg, Germany
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Institute of Physical Chemistry, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Max-Eyth-Straße 1, 24118, Kiel, Germany
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SOLEIL, l’Orme des Merisiers, St Aubin, BP 48, 91192, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kasprzaka 44/52, 01-224, Warsaw, Poland
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Department of Physics, University of Trento, Via Sommarive 14, 38123, Trento, Italy
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Institut de Chimie Physique, UMR 8000 CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
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Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados en Nanociencias (IMDEA-Nanociencia), 28049, Madrid, Spain
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Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities, 08-110, Siedlce, Poland
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Atomic and Molecular Collisions Laboratory, CEFITEC, Department of Physics, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 2829-516, Caparica, Portugal
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J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Dolejškova 3, 18223, Prague, Czech Republic
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Institute for Ion Physics and Applied Physics, University of Innsbruck, Tecnikerstraße 25/3, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 120, 8000, Aarhus C, Denmark
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Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, 7610001, Rehovot, Israel
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Department of Physics and Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, 5290002, Ramat-Gan, Israel
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Center for Joint Quantum Studies and Department of Physics, School of Science, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, 300072, Tianjin, China
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CNRS, Aix Marseille Univ., PIIM, Physique des Interactions Ioniques et Moléculaires, UMR 7345, 13397, Marseille, France
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Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Moléculaire, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL SB ISIC LCPM, Station 6, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
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School of Chemistry, Norwich Research Park, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ, Norwich, UK
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Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Received:
5
September
2020
Accepted:
14
April
2021
Published online:
11
May
2021
This roadmap article highlights recent advances, challenges and future prospects in studies of the dynamics of molecules and clusters in the gas phase. It comprises nineteen contributions by scientists with leading expertise in complementary experimental and theoretical techniques to probe the dynamics on timescales spanning twenty order of magnitudes, from attoseconds to minutes and beyond, and for systems ranging in complexity from the smallest (diatomic) molecules to clusters and nanoparticles. Combining some of these techniques opens up new avenues to unravel hitherto unexplored reaction pathways and mechanisms, and to establish their significance in, e.g. radiotherapy and radiation damage on the nanoscale, astrophysics, astrochemistry and atmospheric science.
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