Publications associées à Observation of the Solvent Shell Reorganization around Photoexcited Atomic Solutes by Picosecond X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy

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Photo- and thermally-induced electronic and structural dynamics in perovskites and transition metal oxides

In this thesis, we exploited optical and X-ray pump-probe methods in a synergistic approach to study the interplay of the electronic, spin and structural degrees of freedom in two class of complex systems relevant for solar energy conversion applications: ...

EPFL2021

Electronic Population Transfer via Impulsive Stimulated X-Ray Raman Scattering with Attosecond Soft-X-Ray Pulses

Christoph Bostedt, Andre Al Haddad, Solène Oberli

Free-electron lasers provide a source of x-ray pulses short enough and intense enough to drive nonlinearities in molecular systems. Impulsive interactions driven by these x-ray pulses provide a way to create and probe valence electron motions with high tem ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Beyond structure: ultrafast X-ray absorption spectroscopy as a probe of non-adiabatic wavepacket dynamics

Majed Chergui

The excited state non-adiabatic dynamics of polyatomic molecules, leading to the coupling of structural and electronic dynamics, is a fundamentally important yet challenging problem for both experiment and theory. Ongoing developments in ultrafast extreme ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2016

Solvent effects in catalysis: rational improvements of catalysts via manipulation of solvent interactions

Paul Joseph Dyson

In homogeneous catalysis, the main emphasis on improving catalyst performance (rate, yield and selectivity) is directed towards manipulation of the ligands. The steric and electronic effects of ligands are extremely well understood and the rational design ...

2016

Characterizing the Structure and Defect Concentration of ZnO Nanoparticles in a Colloidal Solution

Majed Chergui, Thomas James Penfold, Mercedes Hannelore Rittmann-Frank, Marco Eli Reinhard, Thomas Charles Henry Rossi, Jochen Rittmann

The structure and defect concentration of colloidal solutions of ZnO nanoparticles, synthesized by a sol gel procedure (SG-NP), as well as commercially available ZnO nanoparticles (SA-NP) are investigated by UV-vis absorption spectroscopy, transmission ele ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Probing the Interaction Between a Surfactant-Cobalt(III) Complex and Bovine Serum Albumin

Hubert van den Bergh, Georges Wagnières

The mechanism of binding of the surfactant-cobalt(III) complex, cis-[Co(phen) 2(C 14H 29NH 2)Cl](ClO 4) 2{dot operator}3H 2O (phen = 1,10-phenanthroline, C 14H 29NH 2 = tetradecylamine) with bovine serum albumin (BSA) was investigated by UV-vis absorption, ...

Springer US2012

Investigation of Physiological Solutions of Metalloproteins in a High-Repetition Rate Picosecond X-ray Absorption Experiment

Frederico Alves Lima

Over the last decade, ultrafast time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) has evolved to be now a mature and well-established experimental technique, giving extremely detailed information about the local geometrical and electronic structure in the ...

EPFL2011

Time-Resolved Optical and X-Ray Spectroscopy of Rhenium Based Molecular Complexes

Amal El Nahhas

The photocycle of rhenium carbonyl complexes, type facial-[Re(L)(CO)3(diimine)]n [L=halide / n=0, L=4-Ethyl-pyridine (Etpy)- Imidazole (ImH) /n=+1, diimine= bpy , 10- phenanthroline (phen), 4,4'-dimethyl-2,2'-bpy (dmb)] was studied using a set of ultrafast ...

EPFL2010

Ultrafast Optical and X-ray Absorption Studies of Solvation Dynamics

Van Thai Pham

Solvation dynamics, the process of solvent reorganization upon electronic excitation of a solute, is central to our understanding chemical reactions in liquid phase. Ultrafast optical studies of solvation dynamics have so far been carried out on polyatomic ...

EPFL2010

Ultrafast X-ray and Optical Spectroscopy of Binuclear Molecular Complexes

Renske Marjan van der Veen

In this thesis we followed the synergetic approach of combining ultrafast optical and X-ray spectroscopies to unravel the electronic and geometric structural dynamics of the solvated binuclear transition metal complex [Pt2(P2O5H2)4] 4- (PtPOP). This molecu ...

EPFL2010

Diagnostic Techniques for Measuring Suprathermal Electron Dynamics in Plasmas

Stefano Coda

Plasmas, both in the laboratory and in space, are often not in thermodynamic equilibrium, and the plasma electron distribution function is accordingly non-Maxwellian. Suprathermal electron tails can be generated by external drives, such as rf waves and ele ...

American Institute of Physics2008

Electronic and Molecular Structure of Photoexcited [RuII(bpy)3]2+ Probed by Picosecond X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy

Majed Chergui, Wojciech Gawelda

L2,3 x-ray absorption spectra of aq. [RuII(bpy)3]2+ were recorded in its ground and excited states, 50 ps after short pulse laser excitation. Significant changes in both the XANES (x-ray Near-Edge Absorption Structure) and the EXAFS (Extended x-ray Absorpt ...

2006