Biofuels derived from microalgae provide a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels, yet high production costs remain a significant barrier [1]. Optimizing photobioreactors for biofuel production necessitates a detailed understanding of algal biomass, especially its organic components. Raman spectroscopy is a valuable tool for this analysis [2], however, distinguishing individual molecular...
Due to its simplicity, H$_2$ constitutes a perfect tool for testing fundamental physics: testing quantum electrodynamics, determining fundamental constants, or searching for new physics beyond the Standard Model. H$_2$ has a huge advantage over the other simple calculable systems of having a set of a few hundred ultralong living rovibrational states, which implies the ultimate limit for...
Chirality plays a fundamental role in molecular recognition processes. Molecular flexibility is also crucial in molecular recognition, allowing the interacting molecules to adjust their structures and hence optimize the interaction. Methods probing simultaneously chirality and molecular conformation are therefore crucially needed.
This is the case of a recently-introduced chiroptical...
Liquid-Jet Photoelectron Spectroscopy (LJ-PES) [1] enables the direct study of the electronic structure of both solute and solvent, and has advanced the chemical analysis in aqueous solutions. The LJ facilitates in-vacuo continuous liquid replacement, and detection of photoelectrons with minimal collisions with evaporating water molecules.
Velocity Map Imaging (VMI) [2] provides optimal...
The absorption of soft X-ray photons by biological matter can lead to core-level ionization, producing excited cation radicals with the deposition of large amount of energy. The excited molecule relaxes by different competing relaxation channels, emitting a photon or release of a secondary electron called Auger electron where the core-level vacancy is filled by an outer-valence electron and...
