Filamentation of ultra-short TW-class lasers recently opened new perspectives in
atmospheric research. Laser filaments are self-sustained light structures of 0.1–1 mm in …

Triggering rain on demand is an old dream of mankind, with a huge potential socio-
economical benefit. To date, efforts have mainly focused on cloud-seeding using silver salt …

The present state of the theory of the spontaneous condensation of a supersaturated vapour
is discussed, and modern methods for calculating the free energy of nuclei of the new phase …

The introduction of a urea bond linking a protected diethylenetriamine (DETA) unit and the
terminal amino group of a resin‐bound peptide nucleic acid (PNA) decamer gave access to …

As the result of many observable optical phenomena, the occasional existence of upper
atmospheric aerosols has been known since the beginning of the Century. Nevertheless, it …

With illumination by ultraviolet light in the 280-390-nm wavelength region, copious
nucleation is observed in supersaturated vapors containing carbon disulfide. This …

I demonstrate photochemically induced crystallization of metastable hen egg-white
lysozyme solution by weak UV irradiation for several tens seconds. The most effective …

Nucleation and growth promises to be a powerful quantiative detector and amplifier for many
chemical physical phenomena. We have utilized vapor phase nucleation in a study of the …

近些年, 飞秒激光成丝诸多非线性效应及其潜在应用逐渐成为超短脉冲激光领域研究的重要方向
之一. 飞秒激光成丝诱导水汽凝结, 降雪和破碎冰晶二次增长等方面的探索研究 …

Strong photoinduced nucleation of pure water vapor was found to occur in a wavelength
range where no ultraviolet absorption of water vapor has been reported. Systematic studies …