Photon Tools for Physical Chemistry 2014
PTPC2014 took place from September 28 to October 1, 2014 at Hotel Dorint in Beatenberg. Below you can find a few photos taken in Beatenberg a the conference, together with links to Speaker contributions and web sites.
Flames and reactors
Tomas Baer / A brief history of TPEPICO – and the critical features that make it so powerful
Gregor Knopp / Physical chemistry with free electron Lasers (FEL) sources: A prospective view on some experiments and concepts
Robert Tranter / A Chemical Kinetics Shock Tube for Synchrotron Studies (ref)
Tina Kasper / Disentangling reactive isomers in flames using PEPICO (ref)
Nils Hansen / Advances and Challenges in Experimental Research of Combustion
Giovanni Meloni / Multiplexed Synchrotron Photoionization Mass Spectrometric Characterization of Fuel Oxidation Reactions
Arnas Lucassen / International (Photo)-Ionization Cross-section Database
Chemical kinetics
Musahid Ahmed / Hot Nozzles & Cold Beams: Revealing Ion Chemistry, Solvation, & Combustion (site)
Barney Ellison / Pyrolysis Mechanism of Cyclopentadienone Revealed by Synchrotron Radiation
Frédérique Battin-Leclerc / Experimental Investigation of the Low Temperature Oxidation of the Five Isomers of Hexane
Toshinori Suzuki / Femtosecond Time-Resolved X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Liquids using SACLA
Jean-Christophe Loison / The N + CH3, N + H2CN and N + CH2 reactions: kinetics and products
Anne Rodriguez / Experimental study of the low- and high-temperature oxidation of dimethyl ether in a jet-stirred reactor
Shih-Huang Lee / Investigation of reactions of CnH (n = 1–6) radicals with propyne using synchrotron VUV ionization
Adam Trevitt / Product Detection and Kinetic Studies of Combustion Intermediates: Substituted-Phenyl Oxidation Reactions
Yuyang Li / Investigation on Combustion Chemistry of Aromatic Hydrocarbons Using Synchrotron and Kinetic Modeling Tools (site)
Spray and particulate matter
Frederik Ossler / Developments of in-situ X-ray scattering diagnostic tools for studies of combustion and reactive systems
Bruce Yoder / Barrierless proton transfer across weak CH•••O hydrogen bonds in dimethyl ether dimer (site)
Christopher Powell / X-Ray Diagnostics of Cavitation and Sprays
Jonathan Frank / In-situ Soft X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Flames
Chia Wang / VUV Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Aqueous Aerosols
Eduardo Alonso-Gil / Studies of combustion engine exhaust: An in-situ laser induced fluorescence oil consumption method and simulations of Diesel particulate matter via laser Desorption time of flight mass spectrometry (ref1, ref2)
Kuo-Cheng Lin / Simultaneous X-ray Radiography And X-ray Fluorescence Measurement for Aerated-Liquid Sprays
Kevin R. Wilson / Probing Molecular Weight Growth and Decomposition of Organic Particles in Planetary Atmospheres Using Vacuum Ultraviolet Photoionization Mass Spectrometry (site)
Coincidence spectroscopy
Bálint Sztáray / Photoelectron Photoion Coincidence Spectroscopy for High-Accuracy Thermochemistry (…and More!) (ref)
Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus / Diagnostic issues for clean(er) combustion (site)
Ingo Fischer / Application of Coincidence Spectroscopy to Inorganic Chemistry (site)
Mitchio Okumura / Multiplexed Photo-Ionization Mass Spectrometry Studies of Atmospheric Peroxy Radical Reactions
Melanie Lang / Dissociative photoionization and pyrolysis of Diazomeldrum’s acid: A threshold photoelectron spectroscopy study
Fabian Holzmeier / Threshold Photoelectron Spectra of HNCO and the NCO radical
Gustavo Garcia / Photoelectron spectroscopy of radicals using double imaging coincidence techniques (site)
Hans-Martin Frey / Gas phase structures of small alkanes by femtosecond rotational Raman coherence spectroscopy and ab initio calculations
Richard Tuckett / The strange spectroscopy and fragmentation dynamics of the X 2B2 ground state of CH2F2+
Zhou Xiaoguo / Dissociative photoionization dynamics of vinyl chloride in an excitation energy range of 11.0–14.5 eV
Tang Xiaofeng / Dissociation of energy-selected CH3F+ ions studied with double imaging photoelectron-photon coincidence
Victoria Custodis / Lignin Fast Pyrolysis – Mechanistic Studies of Model Compounds
Elke Goos / Investigation of 2-Methylfurane Pyrolysis at The VUV Beamline of The Swiss Light Source
Astrochemistry
Jean-Hugues Fillion / Photon Induced Desorption of Interstellar Relevant Ices in The VUV
Cornelia Meinert / Chiral photons as trigger of life’s asymmetry? (site)
Christine Joblin / Structure and energetics of PAH clusters of interstellar relevance
John Maier / Electronic Spectra of Organic Radicals and Ions of Relevance to Combustion and Interstellar Space (site)
Paul Mayer / Exploring the Ion Chemistry of Small Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons with Coincidence Spectroscopy
Catalysis, surfaces and reacted clusters
Jeroen van Bokhoven / X-ray absorption spectroscopy on catalysts, a photon tool to determine structure – performance Relations (site)
Gerd Ganteför / Photoelectron spectroscopy of size-selected cluster ions using Synchrotron Radiation (site)
Xueming Yang / Application of Strong VUV Light Sources in Chemical Dynamics Research
Stefan Vajda / Catalysis and Electrocatalysis by Clusters: Size, Composition and Support Effects
Urs Hartfelder / Identifying the transient phase in CO oxidation by XAS spectroscopy
Matthäus Rothensteiner / In situ XAS of ceria redox materials under relevant conditions for solar thermochemical fuel generation
Impressions
Pics by Andras Bodi, Patrick Hemberger, David Osborn and Stefan Vajd