Topic: chemical reactions

The conference examines how chirality produces spin-polarized electrons and how those electrons affect chemical reactions, energy conversion, biological electron transfer and quantum devices. Sessions progress from single molecules and junctions to chiral assemblies and interfaces, then consider measurement methods, reproducibility and experimental standards. Ultrafast charge motion, excited-state spin dynamics, topological materials, quantum information and electron–nuclear polarization transfer connect fundamental mechanisms with proposed applications. Attendance applications are reviewed an

Anat Shahar investigates how rocky planets acquire water, a question central to assessing habitability beyond Earth. Her experiments and models examine chemical reactions between hydrogen-rich atmospheres and early magma oceans. The episode considers why water formation matters alongside a planet’s distance from its star.