Ursula Keller wins “Swiss Nobel” Marcel Benoist Prize
Farewell: the NCCR MUST ended 
MUST2022 Conference
New scientific highlights
FELs of Europe prize for Jeremy Rouxel
Ruth Signorell wins Doron prize
New FAST-Fellow Uwe Thumm at ETH
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
New scientific highlight
EU XFEL Young Scientist Award for Camila Bacellar,
Prizes for Giulia Mancini and Rebeca Gomez Castillo
Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to RESOLV Member Benjamin List
Hans Jakob Wörner invited to give the „New Horizons Solvay Lectures” 
Unusual keynote talk at an international scientific conference
NCCR MUST at Scientifica 2021Research publications 2016 L - Z
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Liu, Y., T. Gerber, C. Qin, F. Jin and G. Knopp (2016). Visualizing competing intersystem crossing and internal conversion with a complementary measurement. J. Chem. Phys. 144: 084201 (10.1063/1.4942124).
Lotti, D., P. Hamm and J. P. Kraack (2016). Surface-Sensitive Spectro-electrochemistry Using Ultrafast 2D ATR IR Spectroscopy. J. Phys. Chem. C 120: 2883-2892. (10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b00395).
Lucchini, M., Sato, S. A., Ludwig, A., Herrmann, J., Volkov, M., Kasmi, L., Shinohara, Y., Yabana, K., Gallmann, L., and Keller, U. (2016). Attosecond dynamical Franz-Keldysh effect in polycrystalline diamond. Science 353, 6302, 916-919. (10.1126/science.aag1268). See highlight elsewhere on this website.
Lummen, T. T. A., R. J. Lamb, G. Berruto, T. LaGrange, L. Dal Negro, F. J. García de Abajo, D. McGrouther, B. Barwick and F. Carbone (2016). Imaging and controlling plasmonic interference fields at buried interfaces. Nature Commun. 7: 13156. (10.1038/ncomms13156, http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13156 - suppl-info).
MacAleese, L., S. Hermelin, K. El Hage, P. Chouzenoux, A. Kulesza, R. Antoine, L. Bonacina, M. Meuwly, J.-P. Wolf and P. Dugourd (2016). Sequential Proton Coupled Electron Transfer (PCET): Dynamics Observed over 8 Orders of Magnitude in Time. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (10.1021/jacs.5b12587).
Mancini, G. F., T. Latychevskaia, F. Pennacchio, J. Reguera, F. Stellacci and F. Carbone (2016). Order/Disorder Dynamics in a Dodecanethiol-Capped Gold Nanoparticles Supracrystal by Small-Angle Ultrafast Electron Diffraction. Nano Lett. (10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b00355).
Mathew, S., N. A. Astani, B. F. E. Curchod, J. H. Delcamp, M. Marszalek, J. Frey, U. Röthlisberger, M. K. Nazeeruddin and M. Grätzel (2016). Synthesis, characterization and ab initio investigation of a panchromatic ullazine-porphyrin photosensitizer for dye-sensitized solar cells. J. Mater. Chem. A 4: 2332-2339. (10.1039/C5TA08728G).
Matthews, M., F. Pomel, C. Wender, A. Kiselev, D. Duft, J. Kasparian, J.-P. Wolf and T. Leisner (2016). Laser vaporization of cirrus-like ice particles with secondary ice multiplication. Sci. Adv. 2. (10.1126/sciadv.1501912).
Meloni, S., T. Moehl, W. Tress, M. Franckevicius, M. Saliba, Y. H. Lee, P. Gao, M. K. Nazeeruddin, S. M. Zakeeruddin, U. Röthlisberger and M. Grätzel (2016). Ionic polarization-induced current-voltage hysteresis in CH3NH3PbX3 perovskite solar cells. Nat. Commun. 7, 10334 (10.1038/ncomms10334).
Nango, E., A. Royant, M. Kubo, T. Nakane, C. Wickstrand, T. Kimura, T. Tanaka, K. Tono, C. Song, R. Tanaka, T. Arima, A. Yamashita, J. Kobayashi, T. Hosaka, E. Mizohata, P. Nogly, M. Sugahara, D. Nam, T. Nomura, T. Shimamura, D. Im, T. Fujiwara, Y. Yamanaka, B. Jeon, T. Nishizawa, K. Oda, M. Fukuda, R. Andersson, P. Båth, R. Dods, J. Davidsson, S. Matsuoka, S. Kawatake, M. Murata, O. Nureki, S. Owada, T. Kameshima, T. Hatsui, Y. Joti, G. Schertler, M. Yabashi, A.-N. Bondar, J. Standfuss, R. Neutze and S. Iwata (2016). A three-dimensional movie of structural changes in bacteriorhodopsin. Science 354: 1552 (10.1126/science.aah3497). See highlight elsewhere on this website.
Nogly, P., V. Panneels, G. Nelson, C. Gati, T. Kimura, C. Milne, D. Milathianaki, M. Kubo, W. Wu, C. Conrad, J. Coe, R. Bean, Y. Zhao, P. Båth, R. Dods, R. Harimoorthy, K. R. Beyerlein, J. Rheinberger, D. James, D. DePonte, C. Li, L. Sala, G. J. Williams, M. S. Hunter, J. E. Koglin, P. Berntsen, E. Nango, S. Iwata, H. N. Chapman, P. Fromme, M. Frank, R. Abela, S. Boutet, A. Barty, T. A. White, U. Weierstall, J. Spence, R. Neutze, G. Schertler and J. Standfuss (2016). Lipidic cubic phase injector is a viable crystal delivery system for time-resolved serial crystallography. Nature Commun. 7: 12314. (10.1038/ncomms12314). See highlight elsewhere on this website.
Ojeda, J., C. A. Arrell, J. Grilj, F. Frassetto, L. Mewes, H. Zhang, F. van Mourik, L. Poletto and M. Chergui (2016). Harmonium: A pulse preserving source of monochromatic extreme ultraviolet (30-110eV) radiation for ultrafast photoelectron spectroscopy of liquids. Struct. Dynam. 3: 023602-023602. (10.1063/1.4933008).
Pabst, S., M. Lein and H. J. Wörner (2016). Preparing attosecond coherences by strong-field ionization. Phys. Rev. A 93: 023412. (10.1103/PhysRevA.93.023412).
Rettig, L., Mariager, S.O., Ferrer, A., Gruebel, S., Johnson, J.A., Rittmann, J., Wolf, T., Johnson, S.L., Ingold, G., Beaud, P., and Staub, U. (2016) Ultrafast structural dynamics of the orthorhombic distortion in the Fe-pnictide parent compound BaFe2As2. Struct Dynam 3, 023611 (10.1063/1.4947250).
Savoini, M., S. Grübel, S. Bagiante, H. Sigg, T. Feurer, P. Beaud and S. L. Johnson (2016). THz near-field enhancement by means of isolated dipolar antennas: the effect of finite sample size. Opt. Express 24: 4552-4562. (10.1364/OE.24.004552).
Schmidt, C., J. Riporto, A. Uldry, A. Rogov, Y. Mugnier, R. L. Dantec, J.-P. Wolf and L. Bonacina (2016). Multi-Order Investigation of the Nonlinear Susceptibility Tensors of Individual Nanoparticles. Sci. Rep. 6: 25415. (10.1038/srep25415). See highlight elsewhere on this website.
Shalaby, M., C. Vicario and C. P. Hauri (2016). Low frequency terahertz-induced demagnetization in ferromagnetic nickel. Applied Physics Letters 108: 182903 (10.1063/1.4948472).
Shalaby, M., C. Vicario and C. P. Hauri (2016). Simultaneous electronic and the magnetic excitation of a ferromagnet by intense THz pulses. New J. Phys. 18: 013019. (10.1088/1367-2630/18/1/013019).
Shalaby, M., C. Vicario, K. Thirupugalmani, S. Brahadeeswaran and C. P. Hauri (2016). Intense THz source based on BNA organic crystal pumped at Ti:sapphire wavelength. Opt Lett 41: 1777-1780. (10.1364/OL.41.001777).
Shalit, A., S. Ahmed, J. Savolainen and P. Hamm (2017). Terahertz echoes reveal the inhomogeneity of aqueous salt solutions. Nat Chem 9: 273-278 (10.1038/nchem.2642).
Signorell, R., M. Goldmann, B. L. Yoder, A. Bodi, E. Chasovskikh, L. Lang and D. Luckhaus (2016). Nanofocusing, shadowing, and electron mean free path in the photoemission from aerosol droplets. Chem. Phys. Lett. 658: 1-6 (10.1016/j.cplett.2016.05.046).
Soloviov, M., A. K. Das and M. Meuwly (2016). Structural Interpretation of Metastable States in Myoglobin–NO. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.: n/a-n/a. (10.1002/anie.201604552). See highlight elsewhere on this website.
Stepanov, A. G. and C. P. Hauri (2016). Short X-ray pulses from third-generation light sources. J. Synchrotron Rad. 23: 141-151 (10.1107/S1600577515019281).
Tsokkou, D., Yu, X., Sivula, K., and Banerji, N. (2016) The Role of Excitons and Free Charges in the Excited-State Dynamics of Solution-Processed Few-Layer MoS2 Nanoflakes. J Phys Chem C 120, 23286-23292 (10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b09267).
Wolf, J.-P. and Y. Silberberg (2016). Quantum optics: Spooky spectroscopy. Nat. Photon 10: 77-79. (10.1038/nphoton.2015.267).
Xu, M., A. Caflisch and P. Hamm (2016). Protein Structural Memory Influences Ligand Binding Mode(s) and Unbinding Rates. J. Chem. Theory Comput. 12: 1393-1399 (10.1021/acs.jctc.5b01052).
Yanagisawa, H., Zadin, V., Kunze, K., Hafner, C., Aabloo, A., Kim, D.E., Kling, M.F., Djurabekova, F., Osterwalder, J., and Wuensch, W. (2016) Laser-induced asymmetric faceting and growth of a nano-protrusion on a tungsten tip. APL Photonics 1, 091305 (10.1063/1.4967494).
Yi, C., J. Luo, S. Meloni, A. Boziki, N. Ashari-Astani, C. Grätzel, S. M. Zakeeruddin, U. Röthlisberger and M. Grätzel (2016). Entropic stabilization of mixed A-cation ABX3 metal halide perovskites for high performance perovskite solar cells. Energy Environ. Sci. 9: 656-662. (10.1039/C5EE03255E).
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Liu, Y., T. Gerber, C. Qin, F. Jin and G. Knopp (2016). Visualizing competing intersystem crossing and internal conversion with a complementary measurement. J. Chem. Phys. 144: 084201 (10.1063/1.4942124).
Lotti, D., P. Hamm and J. P. Kraack (2016). Surface-Sensitive Spectro-electrochemistry Using Ultrafast 2D ATR IR Spectroscopy. J. Phys. Chem. C 120: 2883-2892. (10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b00395).
Lucchini, M., Sato, S. A., Ludwig, A., Herrmann, J., Volkov, M., Kasmi, L., Shinohara, Y., Yabana, K., Gallmann, L., and Keller, U. (2016). Attosecond dynamical Franz-Keldysh effect in polycrystalline diamond. Science 353, 6302, 916-919. (10.1126/science.aag1268). See highlight elsewhere on this website.
Lummen, T. T. A., R. J. Lamb, G. Berruto, T. LaGrange, L. Dal Negro, F. J. García de Abajo, D. McGrouther, B. Barwick and F. Carbone (2016). Imaging and controlling plasmonic interference fields at buried interfaces. Nature Commun. 7: 13156. (10.1038/ncomms13156, http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13156 - suppl-info).
MacAleese, L., S. Hermelin, K. El Hage, P. Chouzenoux, A. Kulesza, R. Antoine, L. Bonacina, M. Meuwly, J.-P. Wolf and P. Dugourd (2016). Sequential Proton Coupled Electron Transfer (PCET): Dynamics Observed over 8 Orders of Magnitude in Time. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (10.1021/jacs.5b12587).
Mancini, G. F., T. Latychevskaia, F. Pennacchio, J. Reguera, F. Stellacci and F. Carbone (2016). Order/Disorder Dynamics in a Dodecanethiol-Capped Gold Nanoparticles Supracrystal by Small-Angle Ultrafast Electron Diffraction. Nano Lett. (10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b00355).
Mathew, S., N. A. Astani, B. F. E. Curchod, J. H. Delcamp, M. Marszalek, J. Frey, U. Röthlisberger, M. K. Nazeeruddin and M. Grätzel (2016). Synthesis, characterization and ab initio investigation of a panchromatic ullazine-porphyrin photosensitizer for dye-sensitized solar cells. J. Mater. Chem. A 4: 2332-2339. (10.1039/C5TA08728G).
Matthews, M., F. Pomel, C. Wender, A. Kiselev, D. Duft, J. Kasparian, J.-P. Wolf and T. Leisner (2016). Laser vaporization of cirrus-like ice particles with secondary ice multiplication. Sci. Adv. 2. (10.1126/sciadv.1501912).
Meloni, S., T. Moehl, W. Tress, M. Franckevicius, M. Saliba, Y. H. Lee, P. Gao, M. K. Nazeeruddin, S. M. Zakeeruddin, U. Röthlisberger and M. Grätzel (2016). Ionic polarization-induced current-voltage hysteresis in CH3NH3PbX3 perovskite solar cells. Nat. Commun. 7, 10334 (10.1038/ncomms10334).
Nango, E., A. Royant, M. Kubo, T. Nakane, C. Wickstrand, T. Kimura, T. Tanaka, K. Tono, C. Song, R. Tanaka, T. Arima, A. Yamashita, J. Kobayashi, T. Hosaka, E. Mizohata, P. Nogly, M. Sugahara, D. Nam, T. Nomura, T. Shimamura, D. Im, T. Fujiwara, Y. Yamanaka, B. Jeon, T. Nishizawa, K. Oda, M. Fukuda, R. Andersson, P. Båth, R. Dods, J. Davidsson, S. Matsuoka, S. Kawatake, M. Murata, O. Nureki, S. Owada, T. Kameshima, T. Hatsui, Y. Joti, G. Schertler, M. Yabashi, A.-N. Bondar, J. Standfuss, R. Neutze and S. Iwata (2016). A three-dimensional movie of structural changes in bacteriorhodopsin. Science 354: 1552 (10.1126/science.aah3497). See highlight elsewhere on this website.
Nogly, P., V. Panneels, G. Nelson, C. Gati, T. Kimura, C. Milne, D. Milathianaki, M. Kubo, W. Wu, C. Conrad, J. Coe, R. Bean, Y. Zhao, P. Båth, R. Dods, R. Harimoorthy, K. R. Beyerlein, J. Rheinberger, D. James, D. DePonte, C. Li, L. Sala, G. J. Williams, M. S. Hunter, J. E. Koglin, P. Berntsen, E. Nango, S. Iwata, H. N. Chapman, P. Fromme, M. Frank, R. Abela, S. Boutet, A. Barty, T. A. White, U. Weierstall, J. Spence, R. Neutze, G. Schertler and J. Standfuss (2016). Lipidic cubic phase injector is a viable crystal delivery system for time-resolved serial crystallography. Nature Commun. 7: 12314. (10.1038/ncomms12314). See highlight elsewhere on this website.
Ojeda, J., C. A. Arrell, J. Grilj, F. Frassetto, L. Mewes, H. Zhang, F. van Mourik, L. Poletto and M. Chergui (2016). Harmonium: A pulse preserving source of monochromatic extreme ultraviolet (30-110eV) radiation for ultrafast photoelectron spectroscopy of liquids. Struct. Dynam. 3: 023602-023602. (10.1063/1.4933008).
Pabst, S., M. Lein and H. J. Wörner (2016). Preparing attosecond coherences by strong-field ionization. Phys. Rev. A 93: 023412. (10.1103/PhysRevA.93.023412).
Rettig, L., Mariager, S.O., Ferrer, A., Gruebel, S., Johnson, J.A., Rittmann, J., Wolf, T., Johnson, S.L., Ingold, G., Beaud, P., and Staub, U. (2016) Ultrafast structural dynamics of the orthorhombic distortion in the Fe-pnictide parent compound BaFe2As2. Struct Dynam 3, 023611 (10.1063/1.4947250).
Savoini, M., S. Grübel, S. Bagiante, H. Sigg, T. Feurer, P. Beaud and S. L. Johnson (2016). THz near-field enhancement by means of isolated dipolar antennas: the effect of finite sample size. Opt. Express 24: 4552-4562. (10.1364/OE.24.004552).
Schmidt, C., J. Riporto, A. Uldry, A. Rogov, Y. Mugnier, R. L. Dantec, J.-P. Wolf and L. Bonacina (2016). Multi-Order Investigation of the Nonlinear Susceptibility Tensors of Individual Nanoparticles. Sci. Rep. 6: 25415. (10.1038/srep25415). See highlight elsewhere on this website.
Shalaby, M., C. Vicario and C. P. Hauri (2016). Low frequency terahertz-induced demagnetization in ferromagnetic nickel. Applied Physics Letters 108: 182903 (10.1063/1.4948472).
Shalaby, M., C. Vicario and C. P. Hauri (2016). Simultaneous electronic and the magnetic excitation of a ferromagnet by intense THz pulses. New J. Phys. 18: 013019. (10.1088/1367-2630/18/1/013019).
Shalaby, M., C. Vicario, K. Thirupugalmani, S. Brahadeeswaran and C. P. Hauri (2016). Intense THz source based on BNA organic crystal pumped at Ti:sapphire wavelength. Opt Lett 41: 1777-1780. (10.1364/OL.41.001777).
Shalit, A., S. Ahmed, J. Savolainen and P. Hamm (2017). Terahertz echoes reveal the inhomogeneity of aqueous salt solutions. Nat Chem 9: 273-278 (10.1038/nchem.2642).
Signorell, R., M. Goldmann, B. L. Yoder, A. Bodi, E. Chasovskikh, L. Lang and D. Luckhaus (2016). Nanofocusing, shadowing, and electron mean free path in the photoemission from aerosol droplets. Chem. Phys. Lett. 658: 1-6 (10.1016/j.cplett.2016.05.046).
Soloviov, M., A. K. Das and M. Meuwly (2016). Structural Interpretation of Metastable States in Myoglobin–NO. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.: n/a-n/a. (10.1002/anie.201604552). See highlight elsewhere on this website.
Stepanov, A. G. and C. P. Hauri (2016). Short X-ray pulses from third-generation light sources. J. Synchrotron Rad. 23: 141-151 (10.1107/S1600577515019281).
Tsokkou, D., Yu, X., Sivula, K., and Banerji, N. (2016) The Role of Excitons and Free Charges in the Excited-State Dynamics of Solution-Processed Few-Layer MoS2 Nanoflakes. J Phys Chem C 120, 23286-23292 (10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b09267).
Wolf, J.-P. and Y. Silberberg (2016). Quantum optics: Spooky spectroscopy. Nat. Photon 10: 77-79. (10.1038/nphoton.2015.267).
Xu, M., A. Caflisch and P. Hamm (2016). Protein Structural Memory Influences Ligand Binding Mode(s) and Unbinding Rates. J. Chem. Theory Comput. 12: 1393-1399 (10.1021/acs.jctc.5b01052).
Yanagisawa, H., Zadin, V., Kunze, K., Hafner, C., Aabloo, A., Kim, D.E., Kling, M.F., Djurabekova, F., Osterwalder, J., and Wuensch, W. (2016) Laser-induced asymmetric faceting and growth of a nano-protrusion on a tungsten tip. APL Photonics 1, 091305 (10.1063/1.4967494).
Yi, C., J. Luo, S. Meloni, A. Boziki, N. Ashari-Astani, C. Grätzel, S. M. Zakeeruddin, U. Röthlisberger and M. Grätzel (2016). Entropic stabilization of mixed A-cation ABX3 metal halide perovskites for high performance perovskite solar cells. Energy Environ. Sci. 9: 656-662. (10.1039/C5EE03255E).
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