[HTML][HTML] Evidence of two distinct local structures of water from ambient to supercooled conditions

A Taschin, P Bartolini, R Eramo, R Righini… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
The liquid and supercooled states of water show a series of anomalies whose nature is
debated. A key role is attributed to the formation of structural aggregates induced by critical …

Ultrasonic study of water adsorbed in nanoporous glasses

J Ogbebor, JJ Valenza, PI Ravikovitch, A Karunarathne… - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
Thermodynamic properties of fluids confined in nanopores differ from those observed in the
bulk. To investigate the effect of nanoconfinement on water compressibility, we perform …

All-optical generation and time-resolved polarimetry of magnetoacoustic resonances via transient grating spectroscopy

P Carrara, M Brioschi, E Longo, D Dagur… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
The generation and control of surface acoustic waves (SAWs) in a magnetic material are
objects of an intense research effort focused on magnetoelastic properties, with fruitful …

Multidetection scheme for transient-grating-based spectroscopy

M Brioschi, P Carrara, V Polewczyk, D Dagur, G Vinai… - Optics Letters, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Time-resolved optical spectroscopy represents an effective non-invasive approach to
investigate the interplay of different degrees of freedom, which plays a key role in the …

Technical advances of the TIMER project

R Cucini, F Bencivenga, M Zangrando… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2011 - Elsevier
We report on recent developments concerning the TIMER project that is based on the idea to
extend the Transient Grating technique in the Extreme Ultraviolet region. We designed a …

A comparative study on bulk and nanoconfined water by time-resolved optical Kerr effect spectroscopy

A Taschin, P Bartolini, A Marcelli, R Righini… - Faraday …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
The low frequency (ν< 500 cm− 1) vibrational spectra of hydrated porous silica are
specifically sensitive to the hydrogen bond interactions and provide a wealth of information …

Four-wave-mixing experiments with seeded free electron lasers

F Bencivenga, A Calvi, F Capotondi, R Cucini… - Faraday …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of free electron laser (FEL) sources has provided an unprecedented
bridge between the scientific communities working with ultrafast lasers and extreme …

Propagation of acoustic surface waves on a phononic surface investigated by transient reflecting grating spectroscopy

I Malfanti, A Taschin, P Bartolini, B Bonello… - Journal of the Mechanics …, 2011 - Elsevier
We present a study of surface acoustic waves (SAW) propagation on a 1D phononic surface
(PS) by mean of an heterodyne-detected transient reflecting grating experiment. We excited …

Temperature of maximum density of water in hydrophilic confinement measured by transient grating spectroscopy

A Taschin, R Cucini, P Bartolini, R Torre - Europhysics Letters, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We report heterodyne detected transient grating measurements on water confined in the
hydrophilic porous glass Vycor7930 in the range of temperature from− 15 to 90 C. With this …

Supercooling and freezing processes in nanoconfined water by time-resolved optical Kerr effect spectroscopy

A Taschin, P Bartolini, A Marcelli… - Journal of Physics …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Using heterodyne-detected optical Kerr effect (HD-OKE) measurements, we investigate the
vibrational dynamics and the structural relaxation of water nanoconfined in Vycor porous …