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Nature 393, 735-737 (25 June 1998) | doi:10.1038/31590

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Chemical kinetics:  Smaller, faster chemistry

Klavs Jensen1

Chemical kinetics is the study of mechanisms and rates of chemical processes, in anything from biological systems to man-made materials. To measure the rate of reaction between two chemical species, they must be mixed much faster than the reaction rate — otherwise only the mixing rate is observed.

  1. Klavs Jensen is in the Departments of Chemical Engineering and of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307, USA.
    e-mail: Email: kfjensen@mit.edu