Themed collection Bunsen-Tagung 2024: High-Resolution Structural Methods in Material and Life Sciences

Spin diffusion among abundant passive spins influences the observable J-multiplet pattern in solid-state NMR spectra.

A paramagnetic seahorse-like compound was characterised in non-crystalline phases. While the molecule retains its crystal structure in powder and solution, it is highly dynamic in the gas phase.

The non-monotonic behavior of the Soret coefficient in aqueous salt solutions with concentration is due to the Onsager coefficient ratio, a dynamic quantity unexplained by thermodynamics.

In temperature-programmed reaction spectroscopy studies the population of different reaction paths of methanol involving dehydrogenation and oxidation on copper clusters at SiO_x and rutile TiO₂(110) are discussed as a function of cluster size.

The brightness and AIEE behavior of imine linkage electron donor–acceptor-based dyads have been revealed and their implications for robust quantification of explosive picric acid in both aqueous medium and the solid state have been demonstrated.

The gas-phase mid-IR spectra of cationic 1,5,9-triazacoronene and two of its cationic derivatives are presented. Their spectra suggest a possible contribution of polycyclic aromatic nitrogen heterocycles to the interstellar aromatic infrared bands.

Depending on the carrier gas, ortho-chlorobenzyl alcohol in jet expansions is more or less chiral and hydrogen-bonded.

The overtone of the Fe–H stretch in ArFeH⁺ is observed by argon tagging, but the low-lying electronic transition lights up only in the non-linear Ar₂FeH⁺ species.

On a Au(111) model catalyst, we observe the formation of gold oxide islands under exposure to atmospheric pressures of oxygen or CO oxidation reaction conditions in an in situ scanning tunneling microscope.

Lewis acid catalysis is a promising tool in photochemistry. Thus, the ultrafast dynamics of a substrate-Lewis acid complex is investigated in silico, which reveals an intriguing dissociation–reassociation mechanism.

Fluorescence lifetime imaging was used to follow the drying process of microgels from their swollen state to their dry state at different air humidities.