So I've been out of Chemistry for the best part of a decade but I think the novel part of this is exploiting the fact that water based solvents are insanely eff

So I've been out of Chemistry for the best part of a decade but I think the novel part of this is exploiting the fact that water based solvents are insanely efficient at propagating charge. Here is some reading I think nay be relevant[0][1][2] but tldr thanks to the miracle of hydrogen bonding, protons/electrons can "transfer" through water by an extremely fast chain reaction of proton association/dissociation - thereby circumventing diffusion as a transfer mechanism. Laser is a useful interface because lasers can be controlled digitally and provide a convenient way of ionising the solution, but this seems like quite a cool hack exploiting the properties of water to me. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grotthuss_mechanism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grotthuss_mechanism [1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/grotthuss-mechanism https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/grotthuss-m... [2] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jz501235y https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jz501235y