Interatomic and intermolecular Coulombic decay

T Jahnke, U Hergenhahn, B Winter, R Dörner… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Interatomic or intermolecular Coulombic decay (ICD) is a nonlocal electronic decay
mechanism occurring in weakly bound matter. In an ICD process, energy released by …

Experimental evidence for ultrafast intermolecular relaxation processes in hydrated biomolecules

X Ren, E Wang, AD Skitnevskaya, AB Trofimov… - Nature Physics, 2018 - nature.com
Cell and gene damage caused by ionizing radiation has been studied for many years. It is
accepted that DNA lesions (single-and double-strand breaks, for example) are induced by …

Electron scattering processes: fundamentals, challenges, advances, and opportunities

S Ptasinska, MTN Varella, MA Khakoo… - The European Physical …, 2022 - Springer
Much effort has been devoted to describing qualitatively and quantitatively electron
scattering processes due to their ever-increasing importance in many industrial and medical …

Ultrafast energy transfer between π-stacked aromatic rings upon inner-valence ionization

X Ren, J Zhou, E Wang, T Yang, Z Xu, N Sisourat… - Nature Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
Non-covalently bound aromatic systems are ubiquitous and govern the physicochemical
properties of various organic materials. They are important to many phenomena of biological …

Electron collisions with atoms, ions, molecules, and surfaces: Fundamental science empowering advances in technology

K Bartschat, MJ Kushner - Proceedings of the National …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Electron collisions with atoms, ions, molecules, and surfaces are critically important to the
understanding and modeling of low-temperature plasmas (LTPs), and so in the development …

Triple ionization and fragmentation of benzene trimers following ultrafast intermolecular Coulombic decay

J Zhou, X Yu, S Luo, X Xue, S Jia, X Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Intermolecular interactions involving aromatic rings are ubiquitous in biochemistry and they
govern the properties of many organic materials. Nevertheless, our understanding of the …

Low-energy electrons transform the nimorazole molecule into a radiosensitiser

R Meißner, J Kočišek, L Feketeová, J Fedor… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
While matter is irradiated with highly-energetic particles, it may become chemically modified.
Thereby, the reactions of free low-energy electrons (LEEs) formed as secondary particles …

Water acting as a catalyst for electron-driven molecular break-up of tetrahydrofuran

E Wang, X Ren, WY Baek, H Rabus, T Pfeifer… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Low-energy electron-induced reactions in hydrated molecular complexes are important in
various fields ranging from the Earth's environment to radiobiological processes including …

Role of the Environment in Quenching the Production of from Dicationic Clusters of Methanol

E Wang, X Ren, A Dorn - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Ionization and subsequent isomerization of organic molecules has been suggested as an
important source of trihydrogen H 3+ cations in outer space. The high interest in such …

Concerted double hydrogen-bond breaking by intermolecular coulombic decay in the formic acid dimer

J Zhou, S Jia, AD Skitnevskaya, E Wang… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Hydrogen bonds are ubiquitous in nature and of fundamental importance to the chemical
and physical properties of molecular systems in the condensed phase. Nevertheless, our …