Study Showed molecules change their behaviors under a polariton leader

Researchers have found that combining light with matter could generate a new class of matter known as hybrid polaritons

The study of hybrid polaritons could lead to faster, more efficient chemical reactions.

Dr. Xiong and Dr. Zhou wanted to find out whether polariton modes and dark modes (the molecular byproduct of polariton creation)

both modify chemical reactions by using two-dimensional infrared

it was a spectroscopy on a simple chemical reaction that is easier to analyze

Previous experiments used complex systems that could not separate the effects of the light

it made interaction from the effects of the chemical reaction itself,

it impossible to determine what was occurring with either the matter or the light alone.

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