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Narrow size distributions are essential in many advanced technologies, but were previously difficult to produce photochemically.

From Science Daily • Oct. 25, 2023

The process would have been almost impossible photochemically, said Heather Linville, the supervisor at the Library of Congress’s film preservation laboratory.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2023

Leaves end their lives sodden underfoot, or raked into picturesque bonfire heaps that fill the fall breezes with fragrant waftings of CO2 and photochemically reactive substances.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2022

Our experimental evidence suggests something extraordinary: a bird’s compass relies on subtle, fundamentally quantum effects in short-lived molecular fragments, known as radical pairs, formed photochemically in its eyes.

From Scientific American • Mar. 15, 2022