Generation and characterization of ultrathin free-flowing liquid sheets

Koralek, Jake D.; Kim, Jongjin B.; Bruza, Petr; Curry, Chandra B.; Chen, Zhijiang; Bechtel, Hans A.; Cordones, Amy A.; Sperling, Philipp; Toleikis, Sven; Kern, Jan F.; Moeller, Stefan P.; Glenzer, Siegfried H.; DePonte, Daniel P.

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-03696-w

Title: Generation and characterization of ultrathin free-flowing liquid sheets

Journal Article · Tue Apr 10 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03696-w· OSTI ID:1434920

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SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague (Czech Republic). ELI Beamlines Inst. of Physics; Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (United States). Thayer School of Engineering
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB (Canada). Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source (ALS)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); European X-ray Free-Electron Laser (XFEL), Schenefeld (Germany)
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)

The physics and chemistry of liquid solutions play a central role in science, and our understanding of life on Earth. Unfortunately, key tools for interrogating aqueous systems, such as infrared and soft X-ray spectroscopy, cannot readily be applied because of strong absorption in water. Here we use gas-dynamic forces to generate free-flowing, sub-micron, liquid sheets which are two orders of magnitude thinner than anything previously reported. Optical, infrared, and X-ray spectroscopies are used to characterize the sheets, which are found to be tunable in thickness from over 1 μm down to less than 20 nm, which corresponds to fewer than 100 water molecules thick. At this thickness, aqueous sheets can readily transmit photons across the spectrum, leading to potentially transformative applications in infrared, X-ray, electron spectroscopies and beyond. The ultrathin sheets are stable for days in vacuum, and we demonstrate their use at free-electron laser and synchrotron light sources.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Institutes of Health (NIH); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515; AC02-05CH11231; GM110501; GM126289

OSTI ID:: 1434920

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1559165

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Vol. 9, Issue 1; ISSN 2041-1723

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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