Chemistry at the space time limit; time resolved nonlinear spectroscopy of elementary chemical events

通过化学键中心（CBC）第一阶段第二阶段的奖励，化学部门和数学和物理科学理事会多学科活动办公室共同支持加州大学欧文分校的Shaul Mukamel的研究，他将领导加州大学欧文分校和加州大学圣巴巴拉分校的研究人员的合作努力。该CBC将采用综合实验和理论方法，以单原子分辨率实时探测分子的内部运作。这些研究的目的是表征化学中的基本事件，如单个分子的氧化和还原，化学键的形成和断裂，分子间的电荷转移和传输。这些研究将通过提供化学事件发生时的延时序列，在最基本的层面上提供一个真实空间的、实时的化学过程图像。这种能力将为科学家和广大公众提供一个研究分子事件的新视角。该CBC将发展的科学的视觉成分使其特别适合广泛的公众传播。化学键合中心旨在集中创新的合作努力，解决一个“大问题”，这将导致化学或化学与其他科学的界面的重大进展，并有可能吸引广泛的科学和公众的兴趣。

With this Chemical Bonding Center (CBC) Phase I, Step II award, the Division of Chemistry and the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate jointly support the research of Shaul Mukamel, of the University of California Irvine, who will lead a collaborative effort involving researchers from UC Irvine and UC Santa Barbara. This CBC will use an integrated experimental and theoretical approach to probe the inner workings of molecules in real-time with single atom resolution. The goal of these investigations is to characterize elementary events in chemistry such as the oxidation and reduction of a single molecule, the making and breaking of chemical bonds, and charge transfer and transport among molecules. These investigations will lead to a real-space, real-time picture of chemical processes at the most fundamental level by providing time-lapse sequences of chemical events as they occur. This capability will provide a new perspective into studies of molecular events for scientists and the public at large. The visual component of the science to be developed by this CBC makes it particularly well suited for broad public dissemination.Chemical Bonding Centers are designed to focus innovative collaborative efforts that address a "big problem" which will lead to a major advance in chemistry or at the interface of chemistry and other sciences and will have the potential to attract broad scientific and public interest.