Abstract

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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气相中分子和团簇动力学的路线图

摘要

这份路线图文章重点介绍了气相中分子和团簇动力学研究的最新进展，挑战和未来前景。它由在互补性实验和理论技术方面具有领先专业知识的科学家提供的19篇论文，探讨了从二十秒数量级到从十亿分之一秒到数分钟甚至更长的时间尺度上的动力学，以及从最小的（原子性的）分子到簇的复杂程度不等的系统。纳米粒子。结合这些技术中的一些，为探索迄今尚未探索的反应途径和机制开辟了新途径，并确立了它们在例如纳米级放射治疗和辐射损伤，天体物理学，天体化学和大气科学中的意义。

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