Cold physics and chemistry: Collisions, ionization and reactions inside helium nanodroplets close to zero K

A Mauracher, O Echt, AM Ellis, S Yang, DK Bohme… - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
This review provides a comprehensive overview of the applications of helium nanodroplets
in the study of ensembles of atoms and molecules, ie clusters and complexes. These …

Chemistry and physics of dopants embedded in helium droplets

S Albertini, E Gruber, F Zappa… - Mass Spectrometry …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Helium droplets represent a cold inert matrix, free of walls with outstanding properties to
grow complexes and clusters at conditions that are perfect to simulate cold and dense …

Cold and controlled chemical reaction dynamics

J Toscano, HJ Lewandowski… - Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The prospect of studying state-to-state chemical reaction dynamics, with full control over all
of the reaction parameters, is becoming a reality for a small number of systems. Thanks to …

Electronic spectroscopy of anthracene cations and protonated anthracene in the search for carriers of diffuse interstellar bands

M Meyer, P Martini, A Schiller, F Zappa… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The helium-tagging technique was employed to record absorption spectra of cold
anthracene cations and protonated anthracene. The evaluation of the spectra of the …

Multiply charged helium droplet anions

F Laimer, F Zappa, P Scheier… - Chemistry–A European …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The detection of multiply charged helium droplet anions is reported for the first time. By
ionizing droplets of superfluid helium with low energy electrons (up to 25 eV), it was possible …

Low-temperature condensation of carbon

SA Krasnokutski, M Goulart, EB Gordon… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Two different types of experiments were performed. In the first experiment, we studied the
low-temperature condensation of vaporized graphite inside bulk liquid helium, while in the …

Did life originate from low-temperature areas of the Universe?

SA Krasnokutski - Low Temperature Physics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The biological molecules delivered to Earth on the board of meteorites and comets were
called one of the possible causes of the origin of life. Therefore, our understanding of the …

Shock-driven formation of covalently bound carbon nanoparticles from ion collisions with clusters of C60 fullerenes

R Delaunay, M Gatchell, A Mika, A Domaracka, L Adoui… - Carbon, 2018 - Elsevier
We show that the energetic processing of C 60 clusters by slow atomic projectiles leads to
ultrafast (< ps) formation of large covalent carbon nanoparticles containing a few hundreds …

Stability of C59 Knockout Fragments from Femtoseconds to Infinity

M Gatchell, N Florin, S Indrajith… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
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Bond breaking and making in mixed clusters of fullerene and coronene molecules induced by keV-ion impact

N Florin, A Domaracka, P Rousseau… - Physical Chemistry …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
We have performed classical molecular dynamics simulations of 3 keV Ar+(C24H12) n
(C60) m collisions where (n, m)=(3, 2),(1, 4),(9, 4) and (2, 11). The simulated mass spectra of …