THE task of writing a modern text-book of photochemistry is no easy one. To keep the volume within reasonable confines is almost as difficult a problem, since the limits to which the author must work ...

Retinal photochemistry centres on the ultrafast electronic and nuclear rearrangements that occur when the retinal chromophore absorbs a photon. In biological systems such as animal and microbial ...

Meet your new lab assistant: an automated flow chemistry system called RoboChem that uses machine learning to optimize a range of light-driven reactions (Science 2024, DOI: 10.1126/science.adj1817).

“In the blink of an eye” may sound fast to most people, but the tenth of a second or so it takes to blink is an eternity to Hyotcherl Ihee. To him, “fast” means a few femtoseconds, or millionths of a ...