Intra-cluster bond formation (ICBF): using light to connect molecules

https://phys.org/news/2023-03-molecules.html

"two serine molecules bind together to form dipeptide enables next stages of polymerization to readily occur... photo-chemistry uses light drive chemical reactions that not likely to occur otherwise... combining tunable monochromatic light in vacuum ultra-violet with ion-trap mass spectrometer... selecting clusters irradiating by synchrotron light, measure resulting fragments... fragments mass-selected and collisionally excited... important biophysical reactions triggered abiotically inside molecular clusters"

Related: A platform for integrated spectrometers based on solution-processable semiconductors

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-platform-spectrometers-based-solution-processable-semiconductors.html