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EPSRC Reference: EP/D069912/1
Title: CoCoChem - A Network to Develop the Coherent Control of Chemistry
Principal Investigator: Worth, Professor GA
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Department: School of Chemistry
Organisation: University of Birmingham
Scheme: Network
Starts: 01 June 2006 Ends: 31 May 2009 Value (£): 48,686
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Gas & Solution Phase Reactions
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No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
Related Grants:
EP/D070651/1
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Photochemistry uses light to initiate chemical change. This can often lead to products different from those obtained using usual chemical reagents and heat. Unfortunately, photochemistry is no easier to control than thermal chemistry and often a mixture of producs are obtained. Coherent control aims to use the electric field generated by a laser to direct a chemical reaction. This can be done by using a specially shaped pulse of laser light. How to shape the pulse is a technically difficult problem. How this pulse brings about the control is a theoretically difficult problem. The proposed research is to set up a network of researchers to discuss and solve these problems.
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