Exploring Transient Phenomena at Various Interaction Scales

A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemistry: Symmetry/Asymmetry".

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Dear Colleagues,

The core of evolving technologies is based on the continuous understanding and exploring of all fundamental mechanisms involved. For many of the top applications in present-day, such as thin-film technology, drug delivery, bio-control technology, robotics, geophysics, atmospheric control, to name a few, the drive towards controlling and tailoring fundamental aspects is given by the complexity of the transient phenomena involved. Attempting to uncover core phenomena for various scientific domains is arduous and rather difficult as it is, more often than not, based on complex mathematical and physical models with strong influence from non-linear dynamics and chaotic behavior.

The problem of interaction scale becomes essential in understanding these phenomena as their non-linear nature impacts technological applications, as well as their implementation and control. The concept of the interaction scale, or scale transitions, becomes as important as the choice of which investigation tool(s) to use for experimental research, essentially defining the boundaries of the complex mathematical models. Therefore, a modern perspective is needed—a view that considers, beside the steady and controllable state, the transient dynamics, and even chaos, as pilons on which an ampler view over the phenomenon can be built.

This Special Issue aims to attract novel and exciting experimental and theoretical research concerning essential transient phenomena analysis at different interaction scales. 

Prof. Dr. Maricel Agop
Dr. Dan Gheorghe Dimitriu
Dr. Stefan Andrei Irimiciuc
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Keywords

  • transient phenomena
  • complex systems
  • non-linear mathematical and physical models
  • low-temperature plasmas
  • laser ablation

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Orientation of Chiral Molecules by External Electric Fields: Focus on Photodissociation Dynamics
by Po-Yu Tsai and Federico Palazzetti
Symmetry 2022, 14(10), 2152; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14102152 - 14 Oct 2022
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Molecular orientation is a fundamental requirement to study and control photoinitiated reactions. Experimental setups that make use of hexapolar electric filters combined with slice-ion imaging detectors were employed in these last years to investigate the photodissociation dynamics of chiral molecules. The final goal [...] Read more.
Molecular orientation is a fundamental requirement to study and control photoinitiated reactions. Experimental setups that make use of hexapolar electric filters combined with slice-ion imaging detectors were employed in these last years to investigate the photodissociation dynamics of chiral molecules. The final goal is the on-the-fly discrimination of oriented enantiomers, revealed by the different angular distributions in photofragment ion-imaging, as predicted from vector correlation studies. Here, we review experiments of photodissociation of oriented chiral molecules, with the aim of presenting limits emerging from these investigations and perspectives toward the achievement of the ultimate objective. Full article
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