Ultrafast electron diffraction: Visualizing dynamic states of matter

D Filippetto, P Musumeci, RK Li, BJ Siwick… - Reviews of Modern …, 2022 - APS
Since the discovery of electron-wave duality, electron scattering instrumentation has
developed into a powerful array of techniques for revealing the atomic structure of matter …

Reaction dynamics studied via femtosecond X-ray liquidography at X-ray free-electron lasers

EH Choi, Y Lee, J Heo, H Ihee - Chemical Science, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) provide femtosecond X-ray pulses suitable for pump–
probe time-resolved studies with a femtosecond time resolution. Since the advent of the first …

Imaging the short-lived hydroxyl-hydronium pair in ionized liquid water

MF Lin, N Singh, S Liang, M Mo, JPF Nunes… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The radiolysis of water is ubiquitous in nature and plays a critical role in numerous
biochemical and technological applications. Although the elementary reaction pathways for …

Solvent-dependent structural dynamics in the ultrafast photodissociation reaction of triiodide observed with time-resolved x-ray solution scattering

A Nimmrich, MR Panman, O Berntsson… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Resolving the structural dynamics of bond breaking, bond formation, and solvation is
required for a deeper understanding of solution-phase chemical reactions. In this work, we …

[HTML][HTML] Relativistic ultrafast electron diffraction at high repetition rates

KM Siddiqui, DB Durham, F Cropp, F Ji… - Structural …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The ability to resolve the dynamics of matter on its native temporal and spatial scales
constitutes a key challenge and convergent theme across chemistry, biology, and materials …

Ultrafast molecular movies: Probing chemical dynamics with femtosecond electron and X-ray diffraction

Q Wang, L Yun, J Yang - CCS Chemistry, 2024 - chinesechemsoc.org
Understanding the process of chemical reactions has always been a relentless pursuit for
chemists. The development of femtosecond pump-probe techniques since the 1980s has …

Determining the charge distribution and the direction of bond cleavage with femtosecond anisotropic x-ray liquidography

J Heo, JG Kim, EH Choi, H Ki, DS Ahn, J Kim… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Energy, structure, and charge are fundamental quantities characterizing a molecule.
Whereas the energy flow and structure change in chemical reactions are experimentally …

Novel Ultrabright and Air‐Stable Photocathodes Discovered from Machine Learning and Density Functional Theory Driven Screening

ER Antoniuk, P Schindler, WA Schroeder… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The high brightness, low emittance electron beams achieved in modern X‐ray free‐electron
lasers (XFELs) have enabled powerful X‐ray imaging tools, allowing molecular systems to …

Novel approach to push the limit of temporal resolution in ultrafast electron diffraction accelerators

B Alberdi Esuain, JG Hwang, A Neumann, T Kamps - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Ultrafast electron diffraction techniques that employ relativistic electrons as a probe have
been in the spotlight as a key technology for visualizing structural dynamics which take …

[PDF][PDF] A sub-100 nm thickness flat jet for extreme ultraviolet to soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy

D De Angelis, L Longetti, G Bonano… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.iucr.org
Experimental characterization of the structural, electronic and dynamic properties of dilute
systems in aqueous solvents, such as nanoparticles, molecules and proteins, are nowadays …