19 Jun 2024
Eyes glued to a live transmission from inside a reaction vessel, LMU researchers watch chemical reactions at work. Their results will improve the manufacture of the next generation of energy materials.
Shooting a movie in the lab requires special equipment. Especially when the actors are molecules – invisible to the naked eye – reacting with each other. “Imagine trying to film tiny lava flows during a volcanic eruption. Your smartphone camera wouldn’t be up to the job. First, you’d need to develop a special method to make the action you want to capture visible,” says Prof. Emiliano Cortés, Professor of Experimental Physics and Energy Conversion at LMU, also member of the e-conversion Cluster of Excellence.