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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ledbetter, K.
• Biasin, E.
• Nunes, J. P. F.
• Centurion, M.
• Gaffney, K. J.
• Kozina, M.
• Lin, M.-F.
• Shen, X.
• Yang, J.
• Wang, X. J.
• Wolf, T. J. A.
• Cordones, A. A.

Titel

Photodissociation of aqueous I 3 − observed with liquid-phase ultrafast mega-electron-volt electron diffraction

Ist Teil von

• Structural dynamics (Melville, N.Y.), 2020-11, Vol.7 (6), p.064901-064901

Ort / Verlag

United States: American Crystallographic Association/AIP

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Developing femtosecond resolution methods for directly observing structural dynamics is critical to understanding complex photochemical reaction mechanisms in solution. We have used two recent developments, ultrafast mega-electron-volt electron sources and vacuum compatible sub-micron thick liquid sheet jets, to enable liquid-phase ultrafast electron diffraction (LUED). We have demonstrated the viability of LUED by investigating the photodissociation of tri-iodide initiated with a 400 nm laser pulse. This has enabled the average speed of the bond expansion to be measured during the first 750 fs of dissociation and the geminate recombination to be directly captured on the picosecond time scale.