Over the last years, the authors' laboratory has employed monochromatic tuneable laser
systems to reveal a fundamental mismatch between the absorptivity of a chromophore and …

The photochemical effects of plastics refer to a series of photochemical reactions of plastics
under certain illumination conditions. In order to help researchers understand the research …

Directly contrasting ultrafast excited-state dynamics in the gas and liquid phases is crucial to
understanding the influence of complex environments. Previous studies have often relied on …

Recent developments in X-ray free-electron lasers have enabled a novel site-selective
probe of coupled nuclear and electronic dynamics in photoexcited molecules, time-resolved …

Photoinduced isomerization reactions lie at the heart of many chemical processes in nature.
The mechanisms of such reactions are determined by a delicate interplay of coupled …

The light-induced ultrafast switching between molecular isomers norbornadiene and
quadricyclane can reversibly store and release a substantial amount of chemical energy …

Time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (TRPES) is a useful approach to elucidate the
coupled electronic-nuclear quantum dynamics underlying chemical processes, but has …

Structural imaging of transient excited-state species is a key goal of molecular physics,
promising to unveil rich information about the dynamics underpinning photochemical …

Excess energy redistribution dynamics operating in nitrobenzene under hexane and
isopropanol solvation were investigated using ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy …

Simulations of nonresonant ultrafast x-ray scattering from a molecular wave packet in H 2
are used to examine and classify the components that contribute to the total scattering …