Attosecond science opened the door to observing nuclear and electronic dynamics in real
time and has begun to expand beyond its traditional grounds. Among several spectroscopic …

Development of efficient and economic water oxidation catalysts (WOCs) remains a crucial
bottleneck on the way to artificial photosynthesis applications. Over the past few decades …

The development of high-brilliance third-and fourth-generation light sources such as
synchrotrons and X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs), the emergence of laboratory-based X …

Fe (II) coordination complexes are promising alternatives to Ru (II) and Ir (III) chromophores
for photoredox chemistry and solar energy conversion, but rapid deactivation of the initial …

Femtosecond X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) is a powerful method to investigate the
dynamical behavior of a system after photoabsorption in real time. So far, the application of …

Iron porphyrins are the active sites of many natural and artificial catalysts, and their
photoinduced dynamics have been described as either relaxation into a vibrationally hot …

In this perspective, we highlight recent studies that use X-ray spectroscopic methods to
identify and elucidate the molecular and/or electronic structures of intermediate and resting …

Conspectus Extreme ultraviolet light sources based on high harmonic generation are
enabling the development of novel spectroscopic methods to help advance the frontiers of …

The simulation of X-ray absorption spectra requires both scalar and spin–orbit (SO)
relativistic effects to be taken into account, particularly near L-and M-edges where the SO …

In photocatalytic transition metal oxides, the surface electronic structure and carrier kinetics
are complicated by both charge trap** at defects and self-trap** by small polaron …