Oxide–and silicate–water interfaces and their roles in technology and the environment

JL Bañuelos, E Borguet, GE Brown Jr… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Interfacial reactions drive all elemental cycling on Earth and play pivotal roles in human
activities such as agriculture, water purification, energy production and storage …

Current challenges in the physics of white dwarf stars

D Saumon, S Blouin, PE Tremblay - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
White dwarfs are a class of stars with unique physical properties. They present many
challenging problems whose solution requires advanced theories of dense matter, state-of …

Free-electron lasing at 27 nanometres based on a laser wakefield accelerator

W Wang, K Feng, L Ke, C Yu, Y Xu, R Qi, Y Chen, Z Qin… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
X-ray free-electron lasers can generate intense and coherent radiation at wavelengths down
to the sub-ångström region,,,–, and have become indispensable tools for applications in …

A compact and cost-effective hard X-ray free-electron laser driven by a high-brightness and low-energy electron beam

E Prat, R Abela, M Aiba, A Alarcon, J Alex, Y Arbelo… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
We present the first lasing results of SwissFEL, a hard X-ray free-electron laser (FEL) that
recently came into operation at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. SwissFEL is a very …

Features and futures of X-ray free-electron lasers

N Huang, H Deng, B Liu, D Wang, Z Zhao - The Innovation, 2021 - cell.com
Linear accelerator-based free-electron lasers (FELs) are the leading source of fully coherent
X-rays with ultra-high peak powers and ultra-short pulse lengths. Current X-ray FEL facilities …

Attosecond electron dynamics in molecules

M Nisoli, P Decleva, F Calegari, A Palacios… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Advances in attosecond science have led to a wealth of important discoveries in atomic,
molecular, and solid-state physics and are progressively directing their footsteps toward …

SwissFEL: the Swiss X-ray free electron laser

CJ Milne, T Schietinger, M Aiba, A Alarcon, J Alex… - Applied Sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
The SwissFEL X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) facility started construction at the Paul
Scherrer Institute (Villigen, Switzerland) in 2013 and will be ready to accept its first users in …

Electrochemical ion insertion from the atomic to the device scale

A Sood, AD Poletayev, DA Cogswell… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Electrochemical ion insertion involves coupled ion–electron transfer reactions, transport of
guest species and redox of the host. The hosts are typically anisotropic solids with 2D …

Applications of laser wakefield accelerator-based light sources

F Albert, AGR Thomas - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Laser-wakefield accelerators (LWFAs) were proposed more than three decades ago, and
while they promise to deliver compact, high energy particle accelerators, they will also …

[HTML][HTML] Electronic density response of warm dense matter

T Dornheim, ZA Moldabekov, K Ramakrishna… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Matter at extreme temperatures and pressures—commonly known as warm dense matter
(WDM)—is ubiquitous throughout our Universe and occurs in astrophysical objects such as …