Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6493990 | Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews | 2018 | 99 Pages |
Abstract
Intense femtosecond lasers as well as X-ray free electron lasers provide new means to produce multiply charged molecular cations. The fragmentation processes that these high energy species undergo, termed Coulomb explosion, are utilized to determine the static molecular structures as well as to trace the molecular dynamics of ultrafast chemical reactions. This review focuses on recent advances made in studies of Coulomb explosion imaging, highlighting the use of this process to determine the static structures of complex molecules, geometric isomers, chiral molecules and molecular complexes. Briefly, we summarize the recent time-resolved studies of surface electric fields and the controversy pertaining to the contribution of Coulomb explosion to the mechanism for ablation of solid surfaces.
Keywords
TOF-MSCoulomb explosion imagingCOLTRIMSCEIXFELMCPVMITOFMMCPTFEREMPIVelocity map imagingTunnelingMolecular dynamicsTime-of-Flight Microchannel plateTime-of-flight mass spectrometerX-ray free electron laserFemtosecond laserMALDIpolytetrafluoroethyleneelectron ionizationmatrix-assisted laser desorption ionization
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Authors
Tomoyuki Yatsuhashi, Nobuaki Nakashima,