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Author Correction: Direct observation of coherent femtosecond solvent reorganization coupled to intramolecular electron transfer

Elisa Biasin
Zachary W. Fox
Munira Khalil
Amendments and Corrections24 Feb 2021
Nature Chemistry

Volume: 14, P: 474
Experimental demonstration of attosecond pump–probe spectroscopy with an X-ray free-electron laser

Researchers have demonstrated the generation and control of subfemtosecond pulse pairs from a two-colour X-ray free-electron laser and conducted pump–probe experiments in core-ionized molecules.

Zhaoheng Guo
Taran Driver
Agostino Marinelli
Research11 Apr 2024
Nature Photonics

Volume: 18, P: 691-697
Observation of site-selective chemical bond changes via ultrafast chemical shifts

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy probes the chemical environment in a molecule at a specific atomic site. Here the authors extend this concept with a site selective trigger to follow chemical bond changes as they occur on the femtosecond time scale.

Andre Al-Haddad
Solène Oberli
Christoph Bostedt
ResearchOpen Access22 Nov 2022
Nature Communications

Volume: 13, P: 1-7
Direct observation of coherent femtosecond solvent reorganization coupled to intramolecular electron transfer

Solvent plays a critical role in electron-transfer reactions, but short-range solvation dynamics are challenging to observe. Now, femtosecond X-ray solution scattering has been used to directly monitor the reorganization of water upon ultrafast intramolecular electron transfer in a bimetallic complex. Coherent motions of the first-shell water molecules are observed, arising from changes in solute–solvent hydrogen bonding.

Elisa Biasin
Zachary W. Fox
Munira Khalil
Research15 Feb 2021
Nature Chemistry

Volume: 13, P: 343-349
Revealing hole trapping in zinc oxide nanoparticles by time-resolved X-ray spectroscopy

Metal-oxide nanostructures are used in a range of light-driven applications, yet the fundamentals behind their properties are poorly understood. Here the authors probe photoexcited zinc oxide nanoparticles using time-resolved X-ray spectroscopy, identifying photocatalytically-active hole traps as oxygen vacancies in the lattice.

Thomas J. Penfold
Jakub Szlachetko
Christopher J. Milne
ResearchOpen Access02 Feb 2018
Nature Communications

Volume: 9, P: 1-9
The role of transient resonances for ultra-fast imaging of single sucrose nanoclusters

X-ray free electron lasers provide high photon flux to explore single particle diffraction imaging of biological samples. Here the authors present dynamic electronic structure calculations and benchmark them to single-particle XFEL diffraction data of sucrose clusters to predict optimal single-shot imaging conditions.

Phay J. Ho
Benedikt J. Daurer
Christoph Bostedt
ResearchOpen Access09 Jan 2020
Nature Communications

Volume: 11, P: 1-9
Observation of molecular resonant double-core excitation driven by intense X-ray pulses

XFELs can drive multicore-ionization/excitation processes in the fs timescale of typical core-hole lifetimes in molecules. This paper reports experimental evidence of a single XFEL-pulse-driven resonant double-core excitation mechanism, producing a neutral two-site double-core-hole state in the nitrogen molecule.

Eetu Pelimanni
Adam E. A. Fouda
Gilles Doumy
ResearchOpen Access17 Oct 2024
Communications Physics

Volume: 7, P: 1-9
Ghost-imaging-enhanced noninvasive spectral characterization of stochastic x-ray free-electron-laser pulses

X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) are powerful tools to explore x-ray interactions in atomic and molecular systems at femtosecond timescales. The authors demonstrate a transparent beamsplitter that uses photoelectron spectroscopy combined with a ghost-imaging algorithm to characterize the spiky spectral structure of individual XFEL pulses.

Kai Li
Joakim Laksman
Linda Young
ResearchOpen Access25 Jul 2022
Communications Physics

Volume: 5, P: 1-8

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