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Research publications 2021 A - L

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Abela, R., Abreu, E., Cavalieri, A.L., van Daalen, M., Feurer, T., and Staub, U. (2021). Photon Science Roadmap for Research Infrastructures 2025–2028 by the Swiss Photon Community. In Swiss Academies Reports 16, 5 (zenodo.org/record/4588917)

Ahlawat, P., Hinderhofer, A., Alharbi, E.A., Lu, H.Z., Ummadisingu, A., Niu, H.Y., Invernizzi, M., Zakeeruddin, S.M., Dar, M.I., Schreiber, F., Hagfeldt, A., Grätzel, M., Röthlisberger, U., and Parrinello, M. (2021). A combined molecular dynamics and experimental study of two-step process enabling low-temperature formation of phase-pure alpha-FAPbI(3). Sci Adv 7. (10.1126/sciadv.abe3326)

Alharbi, E.A., Krishna, A., Baumeler, T.P., Dankl, M., Fish, G.C., Eickemeyer, F., Ouellette, O., Ahlawat, P., Skorjanc, V., John, E., Yang, B.W., Pfeifer, L., Avalos, C.E., Pan, L.F., Mensi, M., Schouwink, P.A., Moser, J.E., Hagfeldt, A., Röthlisberger, U., Zakeeruddin, S.M., and Grätzel, M. (2021). Methylammonium Triiodide for Defect Engineering of High-Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells. ACS Energ Lett 6, 3650-3660 (10.1021/acsenergylett.1c01754)

Arnold, J., San Vicente Veliz, J.C., Koner, D., Singh, N., Bemish, R.J., and Meuwly, M. (2021). Machine learning product state distributions from initial reactant states for a reactive atom–diatom collision system. J Chem Phys 156, 034301 (10.1063/5.0078008)

Bacellar, C., Kinschel, D., Cannelli, O., Sorokin, B., Katayama, T., Mancini, G.F., Rouxel, J.R., Obara, Y., Nishitani, J., Ito, H., Ito, T., Kurahashi, N., Higashimura, C., Kudo, S., Cirelli, C., Knopp, G., Nass, K., Johnson, P.J.M., Wach, A., Szlachetko, J., Lima, F.A., Milne, C.J., Yabashi, M., Suzuki, T., Misawa, K., and Chergui, M. (2021). Femtosecond X-ray spectroscopy of haem proteins. Faraday Disc. (10.1039/D0FD00131G)  (https://osf.io/pdwmx/?view_only=50d1dc9cc5e241d1ac0dfdb12327fd24)

Ban, L.R., Yoder, B.L., and Signorell, R. (2021). Size-Resolved Electron Solvation in Neutral Water Clusters. J Phys Chem A 125, 5326-5334. (10.1021/acs.jpca.1c03631)

Baudin, P., Mouvet, F., and Röthlisberger, U. (2021). A multiple time step algorithm for trajectory surface hopping simulations. J Chem Phys 156, 034107. (10.1063/5.0065728)

Baykusheva, D., and Wörner, H.J. (2021). Chapter 4 - Attosecond Molecular Dynamics and Spectroscopy. In Molecular Spectroscopy and Quantum Dynamics, R. Marquardt, and M. Quack, eds. (Elsevier), pp. 113-161.

Begusic, T., and Vanicek, J. (2021a). Efficient Semiclassical Dynamics for Vibronic Spectroscopy beyond Harmonic, Condon, and Zero-Temperature Approximations. Chimia 75, 261-266. (10.2533/chimia.2021.261)

Begusic, T., and Vanicek, J. (2021b). Finite-Temperature, Anharmonicity, and Duschinsky Effects on the Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectra from Ab Initio Thermo-Field Gaussian Wavepacket Dynamics. J Phys Chem Lett 12, 2997-3005. (10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c00123)

Bolnykh, V., Röthlisberger, U., and Carloni, P. (2021). Expanding the boundaries of ligand–target modeling by exascale calculations. WIREs Comput Mol Sci 2021, e1535 ( 10.1002/wcms.1535)

Boziki, A., Dar, M.I., Jacopin, G., Grätzel, M., and Röthlisberger, U. (2021a). Molecular Origin of the Asymmetric Photoluminescence Spectra of CsPbBr3 at Low Temperature. J Phys Chem Lett, 2699-2704 (10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c00263) (https://zenodo.org/record/4598847)

Boziki, A., Dar, M.I., Jacopin, G., Grätzel, M., and Röthlisberger, U. (2021b). Molecular Origin of the Asymmetric Photoluminescence Spectra of CsPbBr3 at Low Temperature. J Phys Chem Lett 12, 2699-2704. (10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c00263)

Bozovic, O., Jankovic, B., and Hamm, P. (2021a). Using azobenzene photocontrol to set proteins in motion. Nature Rev Chem. (www.nature.com/articles/s41570-021-00338-6)

Bozovic, O., Ruf, J., Zanobini, C., Jankovic, B., Buhrke, D., Johnson, P.J.M., and Hamm, P. (2021b). The Speed of Allosteric Signaling Within a Single-Domain Protein. J Phys Chem Lett 12, 4262-4267 (10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c00915)

Buhrke, D., Ruf, J., Heckmeier, P., and Hamm, P. (2021). A stop-flow sample delivery system for transient spectroscopy. Rev Sci Instrum 92 (10.1063/5.0068227)

Burgos-Caminal, A., Moreno-Naranjo, J.M., Willauer, A.R., Paraecattil, A.A., Ajdarzadeh, A., and Moser, J.-E. (2021). Hot Carrier Mobility Dynamics Unravel Competing Subpicosecond Processes in Lead Halide Perovskites. J Phys Chem C 125, 98-106. (10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c08492)  (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4620859)

Burian, M., Pedrini, B.F., Ortiz Hernandez, N., Ueda, H., Vaz, C.A.F., Caputo, M., Radovic, M., and Staub, U. (2021a). Buried moiré supercells through SrTiO3 nanolayer relaxation. Phys Rev Res 3, 013225. (10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.013225)

Burian, M., Porer, M., Mardegan, J.R.L., Esposito, V., Parchenko, S., Burganov, B., Gurung, N., Ramakrishnan, M., Scagnoli, V., Ueda, H., Francoual, S., Fabrizi, F., Tanaka, Y., Togashi, T., Kubota, Y., Yabashi, M., Rossnagel, K., Johnson, S.L., and Staub, U. (2021b). Structural involvement in the melting of the charge density wave in 1T−TiSe2. Phys Rev Research 3, 013128. (10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.013128) (https://archive.materialscloud.org/record/2021.26)

Cannelli, O., Colonna, N., Puppin, M., Rossi, T.C., Kinschel, D., Leroy, L.M.D., Loffler, J., Budarz, J.M., March, A.M., Doumy, G., Al Haddad, A., Tu, M.F., Kumagai, Y., Walko, D., Smolentsev, G., Krieg, F., Boehme, S.C., Kovalenko, M.V., Chergui, M., and Mancini, G.F. (2021). Quantifying Photoinduced Polaronic Distortions in Inorganic Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals. J Am Chem Soc 143, 9048-9059 (10.1021/jacs.1c02403)

Chevreuil, P.A., Brunner, F., Hrisafov, S., Pupeikis, J., Phillips, C.R., Keller, U., and Gallmann, L. (2021). Water-window high harmonic generation with 0.8-mu m and 2.2-mu m OPCPAs at 100 kHz. Opt Express 29, 32996-33008. 10.1364/OE.440273)

Choi, S., and Vaníček, J. (2021). High-order geometric integrators for representation-free Ehrenfest dynamics. J Chem Phys 155, 124104 (10.1063/5.0061878)

Dingilian, K.K., Lippe, M., Kubecka, J., Krohn, J., Li, C.X., Halonen, R., Keshavarz, F., Reischl, B., Kurten, T., Vehkamaki, H., Signorell, R., and Wyslouzil, B.E. (2021). New Particle Formation from the Vapor Phase: From Barrier-Controlled Nucleation to the Collisional Limit. J Phys Chem Lett 12, 4593-4599 (10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c00762)

Diulus, J.T., Tobler, B., Osterwalder, J., and Novotny, Z. (2021). Thermal oxidation of Ru(0001) to RuO2(110) studied with ambient pressure x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. J Phys D: Appl Phys 54, 244001 (10.1088/1361-6463/abedfd)

Duchi, M., Shukla, S., Shalit, A., and Hamm, P. (2021). 2D-Raman-THz spectroscopy with single-shot THz detection. J Chem Phys 155 (10.1063/5.0065804)

Dučinskas, A., Fish, G.C., Hope, M.A., Merten, L., Moia, D., Hinderhofer, A., Carbone, L.C., Moser, J.E., Schreiber, F., Maier, J., Milic, J.V., and Grätzel, M. (2021). The Role of Alkyl Chain Length and Halide Counter Ion in Layered Dion-Jacobson Perovskites with Aromatic Spacers. J Phys Chem Lett 12, 10325-10332 (10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c02937)

Esmaeildoost, N., Pathak, H., Späh, A., Lane, T.J., Kim, K.H., Yang, C., Amann-Winkel, K., Ladd-Parada, M., Perakis, F., Koliyadu, J., Oggenfuss, A.R., Johnson, P.J.M., Deng, Y., Zerdane, S., Mankowsky, R., Beaud, P., Lemke, H.T., Nilsson, A., and Sellberg, J.A. (2021). Anomalous temperature dependence of the experimental x-ray structure factor of supercooled water. J Chem Phys 155, 214501 (10.1063/5.0075499)

Fish, G.C., Moreno-Naranjo, J.M., Billion, A., Kratzert, D., Hack, E., Krossing, I., Nuesch, F., and Moser, J.E. (2021). Critical role of H-aggregation for high-efficiency photoinduced charge generation in pristine pentamethine cyanine salts. Phys Chem Chem Phys 23, 23886-23895 (10.1039/D1CP03251H)

Fuchs, J., Douguet, N., Donsa, S., Martín, F., Burgdörfer, J., Argenti, L., Cattaneo, L., and Keller, U. (2021). Towards the complete phase profiling of attosecond wave packets. Phys Rev Res 3, 013195 (10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.013195) & (10.3929/ethz-b-000400267)

Gao, L., Meiring, J.C.M., Kraus, Y., Wranik, M., Weinert, T., Pritzl, S.D., Bingham, R., Ntouliou, E., Jansen, K.I., Olieric, N., Standfuss, J., Kapitein, L.C., Lohmüller, T., Ahlfeld, J., Akhmanova, A., Steinmetz, M.O., and Thorn-Seshold, O. (2021). A Robust, GFP-Orthogonal Photoswitchable Inhibitor Scaffold Extends Optical Control over the Microtubule Cytoskeleton. Cell Chem Biol 28, 228-241.e226 (10.1016/j.chembiol.2020.11.007)

Gaulier, G., Dietschi, Q., Bhattacharyya, S., Schmidt, C., Montagnese, M., Chauvet, A., Hermelin, S., Chiodini, F., Bonacina, L., Herrera, P.L., Röthlisberger, U., Rodriguez, I., and Wolf, J.P. (2021). Ultrafast pulse shaping modulates perceived visual brightness in living animals. Sci Adv 7. (10.1126/sciadv.abe1911)

Géneaux, R., Chang, H.-T., Schwartzberg, A.M., and Marroux, H.J.B. (2021). Source noise suppression in attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy by edge-pixel referencing. Opt Express 29, 951-960 (10.1364/OE.412117)

Golubev, N.V., Vaníček, J., and Kuleff, A.I. (2021). Core-Valence Attosecond Transient Absorption Spectroscopy of Polyatomic Molecules. Phys Rev Lett 127, 123001 (10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.123001)

Grad, L., von Rohr, F.O., Hengsberger, M., and Osterwalder, J. (2021). Charge carrier dynamics and self-trapping on Sb2S3(100). Phys Rev Mater 5, 075401 (10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.5.075401)

Hamm, P. (2021). Transient 2D IR spectroscopy from micro- to milliseconds. J Chem Phys 154, 104201 (10.1063/5.0045294) Peter Hamm (http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4557375)

Han, M., Ge, P., Wang, J., Guo, Z., Fang, Y., Ma, X., Yu, X., Deng, Y., Wörner, H.J., Gong, Q., and Liu, Y. (2021). Complete characterization of sub-Coulomb-barrier tunnelling with phase-of-phase attoclock. Nature Photon. (10.1038/s41566-021-00842-7)

Haynes, D.C., Wurzer, M., Schletter, A., Al-Haddad, A., Blaga, C., Bostedt, C., Bozek, J., Bromberger, H., Bucher, M., Camper, A., Carron, S., Coffee, R., Costello, J.T., DiMauro, L.F., Ding, Y., Ferguson, K., Grguraš, I., Helml, W., Hoffmann, M.C., Ilchen, M., Jalas, S., Kabachnik, N.M., Kazansky, A.K., Kienberger, R., Maier, A.R., Maxwell, T., Mazza, T., Meyer, M., Park, H., Robinson, J., Roedig, C., Schlarb, H., Singla, R., Tellkamp, F., Walker, P.A., Zhang, K., Doumy, G., Behrens, C., and Cavalieri, A.L. (2021). Clocking Auger electrons. Nature Phys. (10.1038/s41567-020-01111-0)

Heck, S., Baykusheva, D., Han, M., Ji, J.-B., Perry, C., Gong, X., and Wörner, H.J. (2021). Attosecond interferometry of shape resonances in the recoil frame of CF4. Sci Adv 7, eabj8121 (10.1126/sciadv.abj8121)

Hernandez, N.O., Salman, Z., Prokscha, T., Suter, A., Mardegan, J.R.L., Moser, S., Zakharova, A., Piamonteze, C., and Staub, U. (2021). Magnetic order of tetragonal CuO ultrathin films. Phys Rev B 103. (10.1103/PhysRevB.103.224429)

Hope, M.A., Nakamura, T., Ahlawat, P., Mishra, A., Cordova, M., Jahanbakhshi, F., Mladenović, M., Runjhun, R., Merten, L., Hinderhofer, A., Carlsen, B.I., Kubicki, D.J., Gershoni-Poranne, R., Schneeberger, T., Carbone, L.C., Liu, Y., Zakeeruddin, S.M., Lewinski, J., Hagfeldt, A., Schreiber, F., Röthlisberger, U., Grätzel, M., Milić, J.V., and Emsley, L. (2021). Nanoscale Phase Segregation in Supramolecular π-Templating for Hybrid Perovskite Photovoltaics from NMR Crystallography. J Am Chem Soc 143, 1529-1538 (10.1021/jacs.0c11563) Data: (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4427776)

Jahanbakhshi, F., Mladenovic, M., Dankl, M., Boziki, A., Ahlawat, P., and Röthlisberger, U. (2021). Organic Spacers in 2D Perovskites: General Trends and Structure-Property Relationships from Computational Studies. Helv Chim Acta 104. (10.1002/hlca.202000232)

Jankovic, B., Bozovic, O., and Hamm, P. (2021). Intrinsic Dynamics of Protein-Peptide Unbinding. Biochemistry 60, 1755-1763 (10.1021/acs.biochem.1c00262)

Jankovic, B., Ruf, J., Zanobini, C., Bozovic, O., Buhrke, D., and Hamm, P. (2021). Sequence of Events during Peptide Unbinding from RNase S: A Complete Experimental Description. J Phys Chem Lett 12, 5201-5207 (10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c01155)

Jarnac, A., Jacques, V.L.R., Cario, L., Janod, E., Johnson, S.L., Ravy, S., and Laulhé, C. (2021). Photoinduced charge density wave phase in 1T-TaS2: growth and coarsening mechanisms. Comptes Rendus Physique 22, 139-160 (10.5802/crphys.89)

Jelovina, D., Scrinzi, A., Wörner, H.J., and Schild, A. (2021). Nonlocal mechanisms of attosecond interferometry in three-dimensional systems. J Phys Photon 3. (10.1088/2515-7647/abcd84)

Jeong, J., Kim, M., Seo, J., Lu, H., Ahlawat, P., Mishra, A., Yang, Y., Hope, M.A., Eickemeyer, F.T., Kim, M., Yoon, Y.J., Choi, I.W., Darwich, B.P., Choi, S.J., Jo, Y., Lee, J.H., Walker, B., Zakeeruddin, S.M., Emsley, L., Röthlisberger, U., Hagfeldt, A., Kim, D.S., Grätzel, M., and Kim, J.Y. (2021). Pseudo-halide anion engineering for α-FAPbI3 perovskite solar cells. Nature 592, 381–385 (10.1038/s41586-021-03406-5)

Käser, S., Boittier, E.D., Upadhyay, M., and Meuwly, M. (2021). Transfer Learning to CCSD(T): Accurate Anharmonic Frequencies from Machine Learning Models. J Chem Theory Comput 17, 3687-3699 (10.1021/acs.jctc.1c00249)

Kretz, P., Waltar, K., Geng, Y., Metzger, C., Graus, M., Schöll, A., Reinert, F., Liu, S.-X., Decurtins, S., Hengsberger, M., Osterwalder, J., and Castiglioni, L. (2021). Adsorption geometry and electronic structure of a charge-transfer-complex: TTF-PYZ2 on Ag(110). New J Phys 23, 013002 (10.1088/1367-2630/abcace) Patrick Kretz, Luca castiglioni, Jürg Osterwalder (https://zenodo.org/record/5081728)

Krishna, A., Zhang, H., Zhou, Z.W., Gallet, T., Dankl, M., Ouellette, O., Eickemeyer, F.T., Fu, F., Sanchez, S., Mensi, M., Zakeeruddin, S.M., Röthlisberger, U., Reddy, G.N.M., Redinger, A., Grätzel, M., and Hagfeldt, A. (2021). Nanoscale interfacial engineering enables highly stable and efficient perovskite photovoltaics. Energy Environ Sci 14, 5552-5562 (10.1039/D1EE02454J)
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