A special issue of PCCP celebrates 20 years of ion imaging. Issue 25, Imaging Probes of Spectroscopy and Dynamics, contains a collection of papers containing original work that uses the ion imaging technique. The issue was put together with the help of Guest Editors Arthur G. Suits (Wayne State University), Masahiro Kawasaki (Kyoto University) and Warren Lawrance (Flinders University).

 

The technique was invented in 1986 by David Chandler and Paul Houston and since then has seen extensive growth.  Improvements in resolution and developments in analysis and interpretation have increased the number of applications and enticed more and more researchers to use the technique. It is now possible to study biomolecules and by incorporating imaging methods with synchrotron radiation nanoparticle ionization dynamics can be probed.

 

The issue contains work by many current leaders of the field; read interviews with the authors of the HOT articles from the issue here.