Atomization by Acoustic Levitation Facilitates Contactless Microdroplet Reactions

X Li, X Nong, C Zhu, X Gao, H Chen… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Microdroplet chemistry is now well-known to be able to remarkably accelerate otherwise
slow reactions and trigger otherwise impossible reactions. The uniqueness of the …

Symmetry-breaking dynamics of a photoionized carbon dioxide dimer

E Livshits, DM Bittner, F Trost, S Meister… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Photoionization can initiate structural reorganization of molecular matter and drive formation
of new chemical bonds. Here, we used time-resolved extreme ultraviolet (EUV) pump–EUV …

Water-Microdroplet-Driven Interface-Charged Chemistries

X Jia, J Wu, F Wang - JACS Au, 2024 - ACS Publications
Water has made Earth a habitable planet by electrifying the troposphere. For example, the
lightning caused by the electrification and discharge of cloudwater microdroplets is closely …

Promoting Water Dissociation and Weakening Active Hydrogen Adsorption to Boost the Hydrogen Transfer Reaction over a Cu− Ag Superlattice Electrocatalyst

C Cheng, F Chen, B Zhang, BH Zhao… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
The prerequisite for electrocatalytic hydrogenation reactions (EHRs) is H2O splitting to form
surface hydrogen species (* H), which occupy catalytic sites and lead to mismatched …

Distinct baseline toxicity of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in gaseous and liquid phases: Mixture effects and potential molecular mechanisms

S Yang, Z Shao, LN **, L Chen, X Zhang… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2025 - Elsevier
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are significant pollutants found in various environments,
posing health risks. Traditionally, the gaseous VOCs are adsorbed and eluted in liquid …

Mutual neutralization of C60+ and C60− ions-Excitation energies and state-selective rate coefficients

M Gatchell, R Paul, MC Ji, S Rosén… - Astronomy & …, 2025 - aanda.org
Context. Mutual neutralization (MN) between cations and anions plays an important role in
determining the charge balance in certain astrophysical environments. However, empirical …

State-resolved mutual neutralization of with and at collision energies below 100 meV

AF Schmidt-May, PS Barklem, J Grumer, AM Amarsi… - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
We measured the product-state distribution and its dependence on the hydrogen isotope for
the mutual neutralization between O+ 16 and H− 1, 2 at the double electrostatic ion-beam …

Single-photon double-ionisation coulomb explosion in organic molecules

D Strasser, E Livshits, R Baer - International Reviews in Physical …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This review explores Coulomb explosion dynamics in organic molecules triggered by single-
photon double ionisation. We focus on the methanol molecule as a benchmark system …

Unravelling non-adiabatic pathways in the mutual neutralization of hydronium and hydroxide

D Strasser, A Bogot, M Poline, MC Ji, A Dochain… - 2024 - researchsquare.com
The mutual-neutralization of hydronium and hydroxide ions is a fundamental chemical
reaction. Yet, there is very limited direct experimental evidence about its intrinsically non …

Sprayed Oil–Water Microdroplets as a Hydrogen Source

X Chen, Y **a, Y Wu, Y Xu, X Jia… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Liquid water provides the largest hydrogen reservoir on the earth's surface. Direct utilization
of water as a source of hydrogen atoms and molecules is fundamental to the evolution of the …