With more light, chemistry speeds up

Light initiates many chemical reactions. Experiments have for the first time demonstrated that increasing the intensity of illumination some reactions can be significantly faster. Here, acceleration was achieved using pairs of ultrashort laser pulses.

(via WSJ)



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