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Cold coulomb crystals, cosmic clues: Unraveling the mysteries of space chemistry - EurekAlert


Now, in the recently published cover article of the&nbsp;<em>Journal of Physical Chemistry A</em>, JILA Fellow and University of Colorado Boulder Physics Professor Heather Lewandowski and former JILA graduate student Olivia Krohn highlight their work to mimic ISM conditions by using Coulomb crystals, a cold pseudo-crystalline structure, to watch ions and neutral molecules interact with each other.&nbsp;

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