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Ursula Keller wins “Swiss Nobel” Marcel Benoist Prize- for pioneering work in ultrafast lasers

Farewell: the NCCR MUST ended - on June 30, 2022

MUST2022 Conference- a great success!

New scientific highlights- by MUST PIs Wörner, Chergui, and Richardson

FELs of Europe prize for Jeremy Rouxel- “Development or innovative use of advanced instrumentation in the field of FELs”

Ruth Signorell wins Doron prizefor pioneering contributions to the field of fundamental aerosol science

New FAST-Fellow Uwe Thumm at ETH- lectures on Topics in Femto- and Attosecond Science

International Day of Women and Girls in Science- SSPh asked female scientists about their experiences

New scientific highlight- by MUST PIs Milne, Standfuss and Schertler

EU XFEL Young Scientist Award for Camila Bacellar,beamline scientist and group leader of the Alvra endstation at SwissFEL

Prizes for Giulia Mancini and Rebeca Gomez CastilloICO/IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics & Ernst Haber 2021

Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to RESOLV Member Benjamin List- for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis

Hans Jakob Wörner invited to give the „New Horizons Solvay Lectures” - online, October 5, 12 and 19

Unusual keynote talk at an international scientific conference- Do photons show gender bias?

NCCR MUST at Scientifica 2021- Lightning, organic solar cells, and virtual molecules

Research publications 2012 L - Z

Lee, W.S., Chuang, Y.D., Moore, R.G., Zhu, Y., Patthey, L., Trigo, M., Lu, D.H., Kirchmann, P.S., Krupin, O., Yi, M., Langner, M., Huse, N., Robinson, J.S., Chen, Y., Zhou, S.Y., Coslovich, G., Huber, B., Reis, D.A., Kaindl, R.A., Schoenlein, R.W., Doering, D., Denes, P., Schlotter, W.F., Turner, J.J., Johnson, S.L., Forst, M., Sasagawa, T., Kung, Y.F., Sorini, A.P., Kemper, A.F., Moritz, B., Devereaux, T.P., Lee, D.H., Shen, Z.X., and Hussain, Z. (2012) Phase fluctuations and the absence of topological defects in a photo-excited charge-ordered nickelate. Nature Commun 3 (10.1038/ncomms1837).

Lee, M.W., and Meuwly, M. (2012). Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Nitric Oxide in Myoglobin. J Phys Chem B 116, 4154-4162 (10.1021/jp212112f).

Lee, M.W., Plattner, N., and Meuwly, M. (2012). Structure, spectroscopy and dynamics of layered H2O and CO2 ices. Phys Chem Chem Phys 14, 15464-15474 (10.1039/C2CP41904A).

Lin, I.C., Seitsonen, A.P., Tavernelli, I., and Röthlisberger, U. (2012). Structure and Dynamics of Liquid Water from ab Initio Molecular Dynamics-Comparison of BLYP, PBE, and revPBE Density Functionals with and without van der Waals Corrections. J Chem Theory Comput 8, 3902-3910 (10.1021/ct3001848).

Lutz, S., and Meuwly, M. (2012). Photodissociation Dynamics of ClCN at Different Wavelengths. Chemphyschem 13, 305-313 (10.1002/cphc.201100575).

Mansart, B., Cottet, M.J.G., Penfold, T.J., Dugdale, S.B., Tediosi, R., Chergui, M., and Carbone, F. (2012). Evidence for a Peierls phase-transition in a three-dimensional multiple charge-density waves solid. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 109, 5603-5608 (10.1073/pnas.1117028109).

Marchioro, A., Dualeh, A., Punzi, A., Grätzel, M., and Moser, J.E. (2012). Effect of Posttreatment of Titania Mesoscopic Films by TiCl4 in Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: A Time-Resolved Spectroscopy Study. J Phys Chem C 116, 26721-26727 (10.1021/jp309799u).

Mariager, S.O., Caviezel, A., Beaud, P., Quitmann, C., and Ingold, G. (2012a). Coherent phonon dynamics at the martensitic phase transition of Ni2MnGa. Appl Phys Lett 100, 261911 (10.1063/1.4730946).

Mariager, S.O., Pressacco, F., Ingold, G., Caviezel, A., Mohr-Vorobeva, E., Beaud, P., Johnson, S.L., Milne, C.J., Mancini, E., Moyerman, S., Fullerton, E.E., Feidenhans'l, R., Back, C.H., and Quitmann, C. (2012b). Structural and Magnetic Dynamics of a Laser Induced Phase Transition in FeRh. Phys Rev Lett 108, 087201 (10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.087201).

Marin-Suarez, M., Curchod, B.F.E., Tavernelli, I., Röthlisberger, U., Scopelliti, R., Jung, I., Di Censo, D., Grätzel, M., Fernandez-Sanchez, J.F., Fernandez-Gutierrez, A., Nazeeruddin, M.K., and Baranoff, E. (2012). Nanocomposites Containing Neutral Blue Emitting Cyclometalated Iridium(III) Emitters for Oxygen Sensing. Chemistry of Materials 24, 2330-2338 (10.1021/cm300575z).

Merbold, H., Bitzer, A., Carbone, F., Murk, A., Wallauer, J., Walther, M., and Feurer, T. (2012). Adjusting the functionality of terahertz split-ring resonators through geometry. In: Ultrafast Phenomena and Nanophotonics Xvi, M. Betz, A.Y. Elezzabi, J.J. Song, and K.T. Tsen, eds., 826016 (10.1117/12.908107).

Meuwly, M. (2012). Reaction Dynamics: Rules Change with Molecular Size. Chemphyschem 13, 684-685 (10.1002/cphc.201100936).

Meuwly, M., and Cui, Q. (2012). Protein functional dynamics: From femtoseconds to milliseconds Preface. Chem Phys 396, 1-2 (10.1016/j.chemphys.2011.09.021).

Müller, F., Peier, P., Schlott, V., Steffen, B., Feurer, T., and Kuske, P. (2012). Electro-optical measurement of sub-ps structures in low charge electron bunches. Phys Rev Spec Top-Ac 15, 070701 (10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.15.070701).

Mustonen, A., Beaud, P., Kirk, E., Feurer, T., and Tsujino, S. (2012). Efficient light coupling for optically excited high-density metallic nanotip arrays. Sci Rep 2, 915 (10.1038/srep00915).

Mustonen, A., Kirk, E., Guzenko, V., Spreu, C., Soichiro, T., Feurer, T., and Ieee (2012). High tip density gated field emitter arrays: different miniaturization approaches. In: 2012 25th International Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference, pp. 322-323 (10.1109/IVNC.2012.6316954).

Olaya, A.J., Ge, P.Y., and Girault, H.H. (2012a). Ion transfer across the water vertical bar trifluorotoluene interface. Electrochem Comm 19, 101-104 (10.1016/j.elecom.2012.03.010).

Olaya, A.J., Schaming, D., Brevet, P.F., Nagatani, H., Xu, H.J., Meyer, M., and Girault, H.H. (2012b). Interfacial Self-Assembly of Water-Soluble Cationic Porphyrins for the Reduction of Oxygen to Water. Angew Chem Int ed 51, 6447-6451 (10.1002/anie.201202266).

Olaya, A.J., Schaming, D., Brevet, P.F., Nagatani, H., Zimmermann, T., Vanicek, J., Xu, H.J., Gros, C.P., Barbe, J.M., and Girault, H.H. (2012c). Self-Assembled Molecular Rafts at Liquid vertical bar Liquid Interfaces for Four-Electron Oxygen Reduction. J Am Chem Soc 134, 498-506 (10.1021/ja2087322).

Paracchino, A., Brauer, J.C., Moser, J.E., Thimsen, E., and Grätzel, M. (2012). Synthesis and Characterization of High-Photoactivity Electrodeposited Cu2O Solar Absorber by Photoelectrochemistry and Ultrafast Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem C 116, 7341-7350 (10.1021/jp301176y).

Peljo, P., Murtomaki, L., Kallio, T., Xu, H.J., Meyer, M., Gros, C.P., Barbe, J.M., Girault, H.H., Laasonen, K., and Kontturi, K. (2012). Biomimetic Oxygen Reduction by Cofacial Porphyrins at a Liquid-Liquid Interface. J Am Chem Soc 134, 5974-5984 (10.1021/ja3004914).

Penfold, T.J., Curchod, B.F.E., Tavernelli, I., Abela, R., Röthlisberger, U., and Chergui, M. (2012a). Simulations of X-ray absorption spectra: the effect of the solvent. Phys Chem Chem Phys 14, 9444-9450 (10.1039/C2CP24080G).

Penfold, T.J., Tavernelli, I., Abela, R., Chergui, M., and Röthlisberger, U. (2012b). Ultrafast anisotropic x-ray scattering in the condensed phase. New J Phys 14, 113002 (10.1088/1367-2630/14/11/113002).

Perakis, F., and Hamm, P. (2012a). Two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy of neat ice Ih. Phys Chem Chem Phys 14, 6250-6256 (10.1039/C2CP23710E).

Perakis, F., and Hamm, P. (2012b). Ultrafast Dynamics of Liquid Water and Ice. Chimia 66, 244-247 (10.2533/chimia.2012.244).

Pfeiffer, A.N., Cirelli, C., Landsman, A.S., Smolarski, M., Dimitrovski, D., Madsen, L.B., and Keller, U. (2012a). Probing the Longitudinal Momentum Spread of the Electron Wave Packet at the Tunnel Exit. Phys Rev Lett 109, 083002 (10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.083002).

Pfeiffer, A.N., Cirelli, C., Smolarski, M., Dimitrovski, D., Abu-Samha, M., Madsen, L.B., and Keller, U. (2012b). Attoclock reveals natural coordinates of the laser-induced tunnelling current flow in atoms. Nature Phys 8, 76-80 (10.1038/nphys2125).

Plattner, N., and Meuwly, M. (2012). Quantifying the Importance of Protein Conformation on Ligand Migration in Myoglobin. Biophys J 102, 333-341 (10.1016/j.bpj.2011.10.058).

Prada-Gracia, D., Shevchuk, R., Hamm, P., and Rao, F. (2012). Towards a microscopic description of the free-energy landscape of water. J Chem Phys 137, 144504 (10.1063/1.4755746).

Richert, S., Fedoseeva, M., and Vauthey, E. (2012). Ultrafast Photoinduced Dynamics at Air/Liquid and Liquid/Liquid Interfaces. J Phys Chem Lett 3, 1635-1642 (10.1021/jz300249e), invited perspective article June 2012.

Rondi, A., Bonacina, L., Trisorio, A., Hauri, C., and Wolf, J.P. (2012). Coherent manipulation of free amino acids fluorescence. Phys Chem Chem Phys 14, 9317-9322 (10.1039/C2CP23357F).

Rosspeintner, A., Angulo, G., and Vauthey, E. (2012a). Driving Force Dependence of Charge Recombination in Reactive and Nonreactive Solvents. J Phys Chem A 116, 9473-9483 (10.1021/jp306629v).

Rosspeintner, A., Koch, M., Angulo, G., and Vauthey, E. (2012b). Spurious Observation of the Marcus Inverted Region in Bimolecular Photoinduced Electron Transfer. J Am Chem Soc 134, 11396-11399 (10.1021/ja3049095).

Saraceno, C.J., Emaury, F., Heckl, O.H., Baer, C.R.E., Hoffmann, M., Schriber, C., Golling, M., Südmeyer, T., and Keller, U. (2012). 275 W average output power from a femtosecond thin disk oscillator operated in a vacuum environment. Opt Express 20, 23535-23541 (10.1364/OE.20.023535).

Saraceno, C.J., Pekarek, S., Heckl, O.H., Baer, C.R.E., Schriber, C., Golling, M., Beil, K., Krankel, C., Huber, G., Keller, U., and Sudmeyer, T. (2012a) Self-referenceable frequency comb from an ultrafast thin disk laser. Opt Express 20, 9650 (10.1364/OE.20.009650).

Saraceno, C.J., Pekarek, S., Heckl, O.H., Baer, C.R.E., Schriber, C., Golling, M., Beil, K., Krankel, C., Huber, G., Keller, U., and Südmeyer, T. (2012). Ultrafast thin disk lasers for intralaser extreme nonlinear optics. In: 2012 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (10.1364/CLEO_SI.2012.CM1D.6).

Saraceno, C.J., Schriber, C., Mangold, M., Hoffmann, M., Heckl, O.H., Baer, C.R.E., Golling, M., Sudmeyer, T., and Keller, U. (2012) SESAMs for High-Power Oscillators: Design Guidelines and Damage Thresholds. IEEE J Sel Topics Quantum Electron 18, 29-41 (10.1109/jstqe.2010.2092753).

Schilt, S., Dolgovskiy, V., Bucalovic, N., Schori, C., Stumpf, M.C., Di Domenico, G., Pekarek, S., Oehler, A.E.H., Sudmeyer, T., Keller, U., and Thomann, P. (2012) Noise properties of an optical frequency comb from a SESAM-mode-locked 1.5-mu m solid-state laser stabilized to the 10(-13) level. Appl Phys B 109, 391-402 (10.1007/s00340-012-5072-z).

Schmid, M., Nogueira, E.S., Monnard, F.W., Ward, T.R., and Meuwly, M. (2012) Arylsulfonamides as inhibitors for carbonic anhydrase: prediction & validation. Chem Sci 3, 690-700 (10.1039/c1sc00628b).

Städler, D., Magouroux, T., Hadji, R., Joulaud, C., Extermann, J., Schwungi, S., Passemard, S., Kasparian, C., Clarke, G., Gerrmann, M., Le Dantec, R., Mugnier, Y., Rytz, D., Ciepielewski, D., Galez, C., Gerber-Lemaire, S., Juillerat-Jeanneret, L., Bonacina, L., and Wolf, J.P. (2012) Harmonic Nanocrystals for Biolabeling: A Survey of Optical Properties and Biocompatibility. ACS Nano 6, 2542-2549 (10.1021/nn204990n).

Stepanov, A.G., Bonacina, L., and Wolf, J.P. (2012) DAST/SiO2 multilayer structure for efficient generation of 6 THz quasi-single-cycle electromagnetic pulses. Opt Lett 37, 2439-2441 (10.1364/OL.37.002439).

Sulc, M., and Vanicek, J. (2012) Accelerating the calculation of time-resolved electronic spectra with the cellular dephasing representation. Mol Phys 110, 945-955 (10.1080/00268976.2012.668971).

Thorsmølle, V.K., Brauer, J.C., Zakeeruddin, S.M., Grätzel, M., and Moser, J.E. (2012) Temperature-Dependent Ordering Phenomena of a Polyiodide System in a Redox-Active Ionic Liquid. J Phys Chem C 116, 7989-7992 (10.1021/jp300105h).

Tong, X., Nagy, T., Reyes, J.Y., Germann, M., Meuwly, M., and Willitsch, S. (2012) State-selected ion-molecule reactions with Coulomb-crystallized molecular ions in traps. Chem Phys Lett 547, 1-8 (10.1016/j.cplett.2012.06.042).

Vanni, S., and Röthlisberger, U. (2012) A Closer Look into G Protein Coupled Receptor Activation: X-Ray Crystallography and Long-Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Curr Med Chem 19, 1135-1145 (10.2174/092986712799320493).

Vauthey, E. (2012) Photoinduced Symmetry-Breaking Charge Separation. Chemphyschem 13, 2001-2011 (10.1002/cphc.201200106).

Yang, Y.G., Liu, X.M., Meuwly, M., Xiao, L.T., and Jia, S.T. (2012) Harmonic Bath Averaged Hamiltonian: An efficient Tool To Capture Quantum Effects of Large Systems. J Phys Chem A 116, 11134-11139 (10.1021/jp304498h).

Zaugg, C.A., Hoffmann, M., Pallmann, W.P., Wittwer, V.J., Sieber, O.D., Mangold, M., Golling, M., Weingarten, K.J., Tilma, B.W., Südmeyer, T., and Keller, U. (2012) Low repetition rate SESAM modelocked VECSEL using an extendable active multipass-cavity approach. Opt Express 20, 27915-27921 (10.1364/OE.20.027915).

Zimmermann, T., and Vanicek, J. (2012) Evaluation of the importance of spin-orbit couplings in the nonadiabatic quantum dynamics with quantum fidelity and with its efficient "on-the-fly" ab initio semiclassical approximation. J Chem Phys 137, 22A516 (10.1063/1.4738878).

Zimmermann, T., and Vanicek, J. (2012) Measuring nonadiabaticity of molecular quantum dynamics with quantum fidelity and with its efficient semiclassical approximation. J Chem Phys 136, 094106 (10.1063/1.3690458).