The emergence of state-of-the-art X-ray light sources has paved the way for novel
spectroscopies that take advantage of their atomic specificity to shed light on fundamental …

The main concepts and important technical details of electrostatic embedding quantum
mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) simulations are explained and illustrated with the …

Reliably identifying short-lived chemical reaction intermediates is crucial to elucidate
reaction mechanisms but becomes particularly challenging when multiple transient species …

The development of next-generation perovskite-based optoelectronic devices relies critically
on the understanding of the interaction between charge carriers and the polar lattice in out …

Linear cyanide-bridged polymetallic complexes, which undergo photoinduced metal-to-
metal charge transfer, represent prototypical systems for studying long-range electron …

The solvation structure of transition metal ions is important for applications in geochemistry,
biochemistry, energy storage, and environmental chemistry. We study the X-ray absorption …

Ferrate (VI) has the potential to play a key role in future water supplies. Its salts have been
suggested as “green” alternatives to current advanced oxidation and disinfection methods in …

The kinetic spectrophotometric study of Ag (I)-promoted production of [Fe (CN) 5PZA] 3–was
performed by monitoring the absorbance at 440 nm, the λmax of yellow-colored complex [Fe …

The ability to study chemical dynamics on ultrafast timescales has greatly advanced with the
introduction of X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs) providing short pulses of intense X-rays …

We present a dedicated end-station for solution phase high repetition rate (MHz) picosecond
hard x-ray spectroscopy at beamline 15-2 of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation …