Think what the Creator can do with the Impact Parameter....more of the Mysteries of the Creator
For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible,...
Colossians 1:16
"Scientists at the University of Toronto have found a way to select the outcome of chemical reaction by employing an elusive and long-sought factor known as the 'impact parameter'.....Nobel Prize-winning researcher John Polanyi, have found a means to select the impact parameter or miss-distance by which a reagent molecule misses a target molecule, thereby altering the products of chemical
reaction. The findings are published today in Science Advances.
"Chemists toss molecules at other molecules all the time in hopes of making something new," says Polanyi, University Professor in the Department of Chemistry at U of T. "In this study we have found a way to control the outcome by aiming a projectile molecule at a target molecule, with an accuracy of a small fraction of the diameter of the target molecule."
Just as a billiard player sends the incoming ball towards the target ball, chemists launch one molecule towards another to produce a chemical reaction. However, this can be done, it is now clear,
--either by chance as has been the norm,
--or by design as the new work shows to be possible.
Previously the inherent randomness in molecular motions has prevented chemists from aiming their projectile molecules at the chemical targets, as billiards players do. Instead, they have been obliged to play their game of billiards blindfold.
Selecting the miss-distance or impact parameter in collisions between reagent molecules has till now been termed the "forbidden fruit of reaction dynamics" by Harvard University professor Dudley R. Herschbach, with whom Polanyi shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Yuan T. Lee. While the discoveries made by the trio enabled chemists to infer many of the forces at play in a chemical reaction, the impact parameter has defied direct control.
This is true even in the famously well-controlled conditions of "crossed molecular beams". It is frequently overlooked that though the beams in this elegant method are aimed at one another, the molecules are not. Now the individual molecules can be aimed at one another, quite precisely.
"We believe that this is a major step forward in the control of chemical reactions," said Anggara." Phys.Org
For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible,...
Colossians 1:16
"Scientists at the University of Toronto have found a way to select the outcome of chemical reaction by employing an elusive and long-sought factor known as the 'impact parameter'.....Nobel Prize-winning researcher John Polanyi, have found a means to select the impact parameter or miss-distance by which a reagent molecule misses a target molecule, thereby altering the products of chemical
"Chemists toss molecules at other molecules all the time in hopes of making something new," says Polanyi, University Professor in the Department of Chemistry at U of T. "In this study we have found a way to control the outcome by aiming a projectile molecule at a target molecule, with an accuracy of a small fraction of the diameter of the target molecule."
Just as a billiard player sends the incoming ball towards the target ball, chemists launch one molecule towards another to produce a chemical reaction. However, this can be done, it is now clear,
--either by chance as has been the norm,
--or by design as the new work shows to be possible.
Previously the inherent randomness in molecular motions has prevented chemists from aiming their projectile molecules at the chemical targets, as billiards players do. Instead, they have been obliged to play their game of billiards blindfold.
Selecting the miss-distance or impact parameter in collisions between reagent molecules has till now been termed the "forbidden fruit of reaction dynamics" by Harvard University professor Dudley R. Herschbach, with whom Polanyi shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Yuan T. Lee. While the discoveries made by the trio enabled chemists to infer many of the forces at play in a chemical reaction, the impact parameter has defied direct control.
This is true even in the famously well-controlled conditions of "crossed molecular beams". It is frequently overlooked that though the beams in this elegant method are aimed at one another, the molecules are not. Now the individual molecules can be aimed at one another, quite precisely.
"We believe that this is a major step forward in the control of chemical reactions," said Anggara." Phys.Org
