Roadmap on dynamics of molecules and clusters in the gas phase
Henning Zettergren, Alicja Domaracka, Thomas Schlathölter, P. Bolognesi, Sergio Díaz‐Tendero, Marta Łabuda, Sanja Tošić, Sylvain Maclot, P. Johnsson, Amanda L. Steber, Denis S. Tikhonov, Mattea Carmen Castrovilli, L. Avaldi, Sadia Bari, Aleksandar R. Milosavljević, Alicia Palacios, Shirin Faraji, Dariusz G. Piekarski, Patrick Rousseau, Daniela Ascenzi, Claire Romanzin, Ewa Erdmann, Manuel Alcamı́, Janina Kopyra, P. Limão-Vieira, Jaroslav Kočišek, Juraj Fedor, Simon Albertini, Michael Gatchell, H. Cederquist, H. T. Schmidt, Elisabeth Gruber, Lars H. Andersen, O. Heber, Yoni Toker, Klavs Hansen, Jennifer A. Noble, Christophe Jouvet, Christina Kjær, Steen Brøndsted Nielsen, Eduardo Carrascosa, James N. Bull, Alessandra Candian, Annemieke Petrignani
Abstract
Abstract This roadmap article highlights recent advances, challenges and future prospects in studies of the dynamics of molecules and clusters in the gas phase. It comprises nineteen contributions by scientists with leading expertise in complementary experimental and theoretical techniques to probe the dynamics on timescales spanning twenty order of magnitudes, from attoseconds to minutes and beyond, and for systems ranging in complexity from the smallest (diatomic) molecules to clusters and nanoparticles. Combining some of these techniques opens up new avenues to unravel hitherto unexplored reaction pathways and mechanisms, and to establish their significance in, e.g. radiotherapy and radiation damage on the nanoscale, astrophysics, astrochemistry and atmospheric science. Graphic abstract