KAIST Reveals How the Light-Responsive Molecular Switch Azobenzene Changes Shape (IMAGE)

The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

KAIST Reveals How the Light-Responsive Molecular Switch Azobenzene Changes Shape

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Figure 4. Three previously proposed isomerization mechanisms and the experimental method used in this study
 Left: the three hypotheses proposed over the past 50 years, namely rotation, inversion, and hula-twist. Right: the setup of the femtosecond time-resolved X-ray liquidography (solution scattering) experiment used in this study. A pump laser starts the reaction, and X-ray pulses record the structure

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