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 …

TeraChem: A graphical processing unit‐accelerated electronic structure package for large‐scale ab initio molecular dynamics

S Seritan, C Bannwarth, BS Fales… - Wiley …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
TeraChem was born in 2008 with the goal of providing fast on‐the‐fly electronic structure
calculations to facilitate ab initio molecular dynamics studies of large biochemical systems …

[HTML][HTML] TeraChem: Accelerating electronic structure and ab initio molecular dynamics with graphical processing units

S Seritan, C Bannwarth, BS Fales… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Developed over the past decade, TeraChem is an electronic structure and ab initio
molecular dynamics software package designed from the ground up to leverage graphics …

Liquid-phase mega-electron-volt ultrafast electron diffraction

JPF Nunes, K Ledbetter, M Lin, M Kozina… - Structural …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The conversion of light into usable chemical and mechanical energy is pivotal to several
biological and chemical processes, many of which occur in solution. To understand the …

High-resolution movies of molecular rotational dynamics captured with ultrafast electron diffraction

Y Xiong, KJ Wilkin, M Centurion - Physical Review Research, 2020 - APS
Imaging the structure of molecules during a photoinduced reaction is essential for
elucidating reaction mechanisms. This requires high spatiotemporal resolution to capture …

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 …

Differentiating and quantifying gas-phase conformational isomers using Coulomb explosion imaging

S Pathak, R Obaid, S Bhattacharyya… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Conformational isomerism plays a crucial role in defining the physical and chemical
properties and biological activity of molecules ranging from simple organic compounds to …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrafast electron diffraction from transiently aligned asymmetric top molecules: Rotational dynamics and structure retrieval

KJ Wilkin, Y Xiong, H Zhao, SB Muvva, SK Saha… - Structural …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) from aligned molecules in the gas phase has successfully
retrieved structures of both linear and symmetric top molecules. Alignment of asymmetric …

[HTML][HTML] Photodissociation of aqueous I3− observed with liquid-phase ultrafast mega-electron-volt electron diffraction

K Ledbetter, E Biasin, JPF Nunes, M Centurion… - Structural …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Developing femtosecond resolution methods for directly observing structural dynamics is
critical to understanding complex photochemical reaction mechanisms in solution. We have …

Ultrafast imaging of molecules with electron diffraction

M Centurion, TJA Wolf, J Yang - Annual Review of Physical …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Photoexcited molecules convert light into chemical and mechanical energy through changes
in electronic and nuclear structure that take place on femtosecond timescales. Gas phase …