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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
卷 12, 期 39, 页码 9644-9650出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c02712
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- National Institute of General Medical Sciences from the National Institutes of Health [1R01GM101392-01A1]
The study presents electron diffraction of cationic argon nanoclusters embedded in superfluid helium droplets, demonstrating the formation of different sized ionic clusters with structures consistent with theoretical calculations. Challenges lie in detecting the neutral helium atoms surrounding the cationic nanoclusters.
We report electron diffraction of cationic argon nanoclusters embedded in superfluid helium droplets. Superfluid helium droplets are first doped with neutral argon atoms to form nanoclusters, and then the doped droplets are ionized by electrons. The much lower ionization energy of argon ensures that the positive charge resides on the Ar nanocluster. Using different stagnation temperatures and therefore droplets with different sizes, we have been able to preferentially form a small ionic cluster containing 2-4 Ar atoms and a larger cluster containing 7-11 atoms. The fitting results of the diffraction profiles agree with structures reported from theoretical calculations, containing a cationic trimer core with the remaining atoms largely neutral. This work testifies to the feasibility of performing electron diffraction from ionic species embedded in superfluid helium droplets, dispelling the concern over the particle density in the diffraction region. However, the large number of neutral helium atoms surrounding the cationic nanoclusters poses a challenge for the detection of the helium solvation layer, and the detection of which awaits further technological improvements.
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