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JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY C-PHOTOCHEMISTRY REVIEWS
Volume 34, Issue -, Pages 52-84Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochemrev.2017.12.001
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Coulomb explosion imaging; Electron deflectometry; Femtosecond laser; Multiply charged molecular cation; Tunneling; X-ray free electron laser
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- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26107002] Funding Source: KAKEN
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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. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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