Electrons are the workhorses of solar energy conversion. Conversion of the energy of light to
electricity in photovoltaics, or to energy-rich molecules (solar fuel) through photocatalytic …

We review the tremendous advances in ultrafast X-ray science, over the past 15 years,
making the best use of new ultrashort X-ray sources including table-top or large-scale …

Conspectus The properties of transition metal complexes are interesting not only for their
potential applications in solar energy conversion, OLEDs, molecular electronics, biology …

The dynamics of proteins in solution includes a variety of processes, such as backbone and
side-chain fluctuations, interdomain motions, as well as global rotational and translational …

Capturing the evolving geometric and electronic structure in the course of a chemical
reaction or biological process is the principal aim of time-resolved X-ray spectroscopies …

In this perspective, the HERFD-XANES (high energy resolution fluorescence detected X-ray
absorption near edge structure) and Kβ2, 5-or V2C-XES (valence-to-core X-ray emission …

We present a static and picosecond X-ray absorption study at the Cu K-edge of bis (2, 9-
dimethyl-1, 10-phenanthroline) copper (I)([Cu (dmp) 2]+; dmp= 2, 9-dimethyl-1, 10 …

The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility has recently made available to the user
community a facility totally dedicated to Time-resolved and Extreme-conditions X-ray …

As an X-ray method for capturing transient structures of molecules during chemical
reactions, X-ray transient absorption (XTA), or laser-initiated time-resolved X-ray absorption …

This perspective presents some recent results concerning ultrafast intramolecular relaxation
processes in metal-based molecular complexes. Ultrafast electronic/vibrational relaxation at …