Energetic adsorption of molecules on surfaces is known to either trigger local chemical reactions or initiate the recoil of adsorbates away from the surface. Now, another possible outcome has been observed — the long-range 'cart-wheeling' of energetic molecules across a surface.
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Lyding, J. Molecular cart-wheeling. Nature Chem 3, 341–342 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1035
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