Recent experimental and theoretical developments in time-resolved X-ray spectroscopies

CJ Milne, TJ Penfold, M Chergui - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2014‏ - Elsevier
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 …

Map** atomic motions with ultrabright electrons: The chemists' Gedanken experiment enters the lab frame

RJD Miller - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2014‏ - annualreviews.org
This review documents the development of high–bunch charge electron pulses with
sufficient combined spatiotemporal resolution and intensity to literally light up atomic …

[HTML][HTML] The Cambridge structural database

CR Groom, IJ Bruno, MP Lightfoot, SC Ward - Structural Science, 2016‏ - journals.iucr.org
The Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) contains a complete record of all published
organic and metal–organic small-molecule crystal structures. The database has been in …

Room-temperature macromolecular serial crystallography using synchrotron radiation

F Stellato, D Oberthür, M Liang, R Bean, C Gati… - IUCrJ, 2014‏ - journals.iucr.org
A new approach for collecting data from many hundreds of thousands of microcrystals using
X-ray pulses from a free-electron laser has recently been developed. Referred to as serial …

X-ray diffraction from isolated and strongly aligned gas-phase molecules with a free-electron laser

J Küpper, S Stern, L Holmegaard, F Filsinger… - Physical Review Letters, 2014‏ - APS
We report experimental results on x-ray diffraction of quantum-state-selected and strongly
aligned ensembles of the prototypical asymmetric rotor molecule 2, 5-diiodobenzonitrile …

Phase retrieval by coherent modulation imaging

F Zhang, B Chen, GR Morrison… - Nature …, 2016‏ - nature.com
Phase retrieval is a long-standing problem in imaging when only the intensity of the
wavefield can be recorded. Coherent diffraction imaging is a lensless technique that uses …

Simultaneous operation of two soft x-ray free-electron lasers driven by one linear accelerator

B Faatz, E Plönjes, S Ackermann… - New Journal of …, 2016‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Extreme-ultraviolet to x-ray free-electron lasers (FELs) in operation for scientific applications
are up to now single-user facilities. While most FELs generate around 100 photon pulses …

Ultrafast X-ray scattering reveals vibrational coherence following Rydberg excitation

B Stankus, H Yong, N Zotev, JM Ruddock… - Nature …, 2019‏ - nature.com
The coherence and dephasing of vibrational motions of molecules constitute an integral part
of chemical dynamics, influence material properties and underpin schemes to control …

Inner-shell-ionization-induced femtosecond structural dynamics of water molecules imaged at an X-ray free-electron laser

T Jahnke, R Guillemin, L Inhester, SK Son, G Kastirke… - Physical Review X, 2021‏ - APS
The ultrafast structural dynamics of water following inner-shell ionization is a crucial issue in
high-energy radiation chemistry. We have exposed isolated water molecules to a short x-ray …

[HTML][HTML] Fixed target matrix for femtosecond time-resolved and in situ serial micro-crystallography

C Mueller, A Marx, SW Epp, Y Zhong, A Kuo… - Structural …, 2015‏ - pubs.aip.org
We present a crystallography chip enabling in situ room temperature crystallography at
microfocus synchrotron beamlines and X-ray free-electron laser (X-FEL) sources. Compared …