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Title: The ultrafast X-ray spectroscopic revolution in chemical dynamics

Journal Article · · Nature Reviews Chemistry
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  1. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
  2. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  3. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

There have been rapid developments in short-pulse X-ray sources in the past two decades, which have enabled the study of nuclear and electronic dynamics by ultrafast X-ray spectroscopies with unprecedented time resolution ranging from nanoseconds to attoseconds. In this Perspective, we discuss some of the major achievements in the study of nuclear and electronic dynamics with X-ray pulses produced by high-harmonic, free-electron-laser and synchrotron sources. The particular dynamic processes probed by X-ray radiation highlighted in this Perspective are electronic coherences on attosecond to femtosecond timescales, chemical reactions, such as dissociations, and pericyclic ring-openings, spin-crossover dynamics, ligand-exchange dynamics and structural deformations in excited states. X-ray spectroscopic probing of chemical dynamics holds promising use for the future owing to the ongoing developments of new spectroscopies, such as four-wave mixing, and the continuous improvements in emerging laboratory-based, high-harmonic sources and large-scale, facility-based, free-electron lasers.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office; National Science Foundation (NSF); US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR); Army Research Office (ARO); Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231; FA9550-15-1-0037; FA9550-14-1-0154; CHE-1361226; CHE-1660417
OSTI ID:
1532322
Journal Information:
Nature Reviews Chemistry, Vol. 2, Issue 6; ISSN 2397-3358
Publisher:
Springer NatureCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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