A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S. and China and one in Australia has developed a way to use electrons to accelerate molecular recognition. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes their technique and possible uses for it. Robert Francke, with Leibniz Institute for Catalysis in Germany, has published a News & Views piece in the same journal issue outlining the purpose of molecular recognition research and the work done by the team on this new effort.