Journal
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 24, Issue 22, Pages 13438-13460Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d2cp00164k
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Funding
- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and investigation programme [883759]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [Wi 1327/5-1]
- MaxWater initiative of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
- European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program from the European Research Council [786636]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) - NCCR MUST
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) - ETH-FAST [200020_200306]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) [200020_200306]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [200020_200306] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
- European Research Council (ERC) [883759] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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This perspective article reviews the specific challenges of photoemission spectroscopy in studying bulk liquid water, aqueous solutions, water droplets, and water clusters. The focus is on accurately retrieving energetics and photoelectron angular information from measured spectra and understanding the differences in different aqueous environments. Various phenomena, such as multiple energy-dependent electron scattering and different energy referencing methods, are discussed. Recommendations on accounting for or minimizing the influence of electron scattering are provided.
This perspective article reviews specific challenges associated with photoemission spectroscopy of bulk liquid water, aqueous solutions, water droplets and water clusters. The main focus lies on retrieving accurate energetics and photoelectron angular information from measured photoemission spectra, and on the question how these quantities differ in different aqueous environments. Measured photoelectron band shapes, vertical binding energies (ionization energies), and photoelectron angular distributions are influenced by various phenomena. We discuss the influences of multiple energy-dependent electron scattering in aqueous environments, and we discuss different energy referencing methods, including the application of a bias voltage to access absolute energetics of solvent and solute. Recommendations how to account for or minimize the influence of electron scattering are provided. The example of the hydrated electron in different aqueous environments illustrates how one can account for electron scattering, while reliable methods addressing parasitic potentials and proper energy referencing are demonstrated for ionization from the outermost valence orbital of neat liquid water.
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