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Published online 20 July 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050718-6
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Electron timed in hop between atoms
Clocked speed should shed light on chemical theories.
Life moves pretty fast if you're an electron, and scientists have now timed one as it hops from one atom to another.
Given that the movement of electrons underlies all chemical reactions, the team hopes that its technique could help to design catalysts or even speed developments in a futuristic form of computing known as spintronics.
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