A high-intensity, pulsed, gasdynamically cooled supersonic molecular beam interacting with a solid surface produces a pressure shock with non-equilibrium conditions T 2Y tr 5 T 2Y rot 5 T 2Y vib inverse to those in the incident beam, T 1Y tr 4 T 1Y rot 4 T 1Y vib , (T iY tr , T iY rot and T iY vib are the translational, rotational and vibrational molecular temperatures, respectively). This provides the possibility for studying the isotopically selective IR multiphoton molecular dissociation in the new non-equilibrium conditions and for considerably increasing the efficiency of the process. Due to pressure shock formation near the surface, duration-controlled molecular beam pulses, intense kinetic-energy-variable secondary molecular beams, and intense beams of accelerated cold radicals can be obtained. In the present paper, research aimed at producing duration-controlled molecular beams, high-intensity secondary pulsed molecular beams, highenergy secondary pulsed molecular beams with IR-laser-controlled kinetic energy, and low-energy molecular beams is reviewed.