Australia’s fastest camera has revealed the time it takes for molecules to break apart.
The experimental research, conducted by Griffith University’s Centre for Quantum Dynamics, aims to help in the design of new molecules for materials science or drug discovery.
The Centre is the only place in the country to have the machine in its Australian Attosecond Science Facility.
Research published in Nature Communications shows how scientists can measure, in real-time, the time that it takes and the separation distance of two atoms when the bond is broken in the simplest diatomic molecule.
The result in an astonishing 15 millionth of a billionth of a second at a distance of half a billionth of a metre.
The research was led by Associate Professor of Physics Igor Litvinyuk and conducted in collaboration with theorists from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Associate Professor Litvinyuk said the molecule was made of two protons and one electron which they shared.
“That electron
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