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SUBMITTER: Morichika I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6715752 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20190829 1
Selective bond cleavage via vibrational excitation is the key to active control over molecular reactions. Despite its great potential, the practical implementation in condensed phases have been hampered to date by poor excitation efficiency due to fast vibrational relaxation. Here we demonstrate vibrationally mediated, condensed-phase molecular dissociation by employing intense plasmonic near-fields of temporally-shaped mid-infrared (mid-IR) pulses. Both down-chirping and substantial field enhan ...[more]