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Cloudy Carnegie1, Jack Griffiths1, Bart de Nijs1

  • 1NanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics , University of Cambridge , JJ Thomson Avenue , Cambridge CB3 0HE , United Kingdom.

The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
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PubMed
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Researchers created stable picocavities for subnanometer light confinement, enabling single-molecule chemistry at room temperature. This breakthrough allows detailed nanoscale structural analysis and control of chemical reactions.

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