SwissFEL Alvra Publications

Garratt D, Das SK, Nelson KJ, Harich J, Freibert A, Bacellar C, et al.
Influence of substitution pattern on the dynamics of internal conversion and intersystem crossing in thiopyridone isomers
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 2025; 27(31): 16371-16382. https://doi.org/10.1039/d5cp01456e
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Lim H, Yang X, Larsen CB, Ledbetter K, Zoric MR, Raj SL, et al.
Excited state covalency, dynamics, and photochemistry of square planar ni-thiolate complexes revealed by ultrafast X-ray absorption
Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2025; 147(9): 7496-7506. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c16212
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Wach A, Bericat-Vadell R, Bacellar C, Cirelli C, Johnson PJM, Castillo RG, et al.
The dynamics of plasmon-induced hot carrier creation in colloidal gold
Nature Communications. 2025; 16(1): 2274 (12 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57657-1
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Banerjee A, Jay RM, Leitner T, Wang RP, Harich J, Stefanuik R, et al.
Accessing metal-specific orbital interactions in C-H activation with resonant inelastic X-ray scattering
Chemical Science. 2024; 15(7): 2398-2409. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3sc04388f
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Barends TRM, Gorel A, Bhattacharyya S, Schirò G, Bacellar C, Cirelli C, et al.
Influence of pump laser fluence on ultrafast myoglobin structural dynamics
Nature. 2024; 626(8000): 905-911. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07032-9
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Bertrand Q, Nogly P, Nango E, Kekilli D, Khusainov G, Furrer A, et al.
Structural effects of high laser power densities on an early bacteriorhodopsin photocycle intermediate
Nature Communications. 2024; 15: 10278 (11 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54422-8
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Cellini A, Shankar MK, Nimmrich A, Hunt LA, Monrroy L, Mutisya J, et al.
Directed ultrafast conformational changes accompany electron transfer in a photolyase as resolved by serial crystallography
Nature Chemistry. 2024; 16: 624-632. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-023-01413-9
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Juranić P, Cirelli C, Mamyrbayev T, Uemura Y, Vila-Comamala J, Lima FA, et al.
Transient X‐ray absorption near edge structure spectroscopy using broadband free‐electron laser pulses
Small Methods. 2024; 8(8): 2301328 (7 ppp.). https://doi.org/10.1002/smtd.202301328
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Bacellar C, Rouxel JR, Ingle RA, Mancini GF, Kinschel D, Cannelli O, et al.
Ultrafast energy transfer from photoexcited tryptophan to the haem in cytochrome c
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2023; 14(9): 2425-2432. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c00218
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Christou N-E, Apostolopoulou V, Melo DVM, Ruppert M, Fadini A, Henkel A, et al.
Time-resolved crystallography captures light-driven DNA repair
Science. 2023; 382(6674): 1015-1020. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adj4270
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Gruhl T, Weinert T, Rodrigues MJ, Milne CJ, Ortolani G, Nass K, et al.
Ultrafast structural changes direct the first molecular events of vision
Nature. 2023; 615: 939-944. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05863-6
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Jay RM, Banerjee A, Leitner T, Wang R-P, Harich J, Stefanuik R, et al.
Tracking C-H activation with orbital resolution
Science. 2023; 380(6648): 955-960. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adf8042
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Maestre-Reyna M, Wang P-H, Nango E, Hosokawa Y, Saft M, Furrer A, et al.
Visualizing the DNA repair process by a photolyase at atomic resolution
Science. 2023; 382(6674): eadd7795 (14 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.add7795
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Reiche S, Bacellar C, Bougiatioti P, Cirelli C, Dijkstal P, Ferrari E, et al.
Frequency and spatially chirped free-electron laser pulses
Physical Review Research. 2023; 5(2): L022009 (7 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.L022009
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Rodrigues MJ, Casadei CM, Weinert T, Panneels V, Schertler GFX
Correction of rhodopsin serial crystallography diffraction intensities for a lattice-translocation defect
Acta Crystallographica Section D: Structural Biology. 2023; 79(3): D79 (10 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1107/S2059798323000931
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Wranik M, Kepa MW, Beale EV, James D, Bertrand Q, Weinert T, et al.
A multi-reservoir extruder for time-resolved serial protein crystallography and compound screening at X-ray free-electron lasers
Nature Communications. 2023; 14(1): 7956 (12 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43523-5
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Wranik M, Weinert T, Slavov C, Masini T, Furrer A, Gaillard N, et al.
Watching the release of a photopharmacological drug from tubulin using time-resolved serial crystallography
Nature Communications. 2023; 14(1): 903 (12 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36481-5
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Bacellar C, Chergui M
Ultrafast X-ray spectroscopy of haem proteins
Chimia. 2022; 76(6): 538-545. https://doi.org/10.2533/chimia.2022.538
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Båth P, Banacore A, Börjesson P, Bosman R, Wickstrand C, Safari C, et al.
Lipidic cubic phase serial femtosecond crystallography structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre
Acta Crystallographica Section D: Structural Biology. 2022; 78(6): 698-708. https://doi.org/10.1107/S2059798322004144
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Jay RM, Banerjee A, Leitner T, Stefanuik R, Wang R-P, Harich J, et al.
From femtosecond excited-state and dissociation dynamics to nanosecond reaction kinetics: following C-H bond activation with X-rays
In: Proceedings the international conference on ultrafast phenomena (UP) 2022. International conference on ultrafast phenomena. Optica Publishing Group; 2022:(2 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1364/UP.2022.Tu1A.2
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Mous S, Gotthard G, Ehrenberg D, Sen S, Weinert T, Johnson PJM, et al.
Dynamics and mechanism of a light-driven chloride pump
Science. 2022; 375(6583): 845-851. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abj6663
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Vogt M, Smolentsev G
Time-resolved X-ray spectroscopy to study luminophores with relevance for OLEDs
ChemPhotoChem. 2022; 6(5): e202100180 (12 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1002/cptc.202100180
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Bacellar C, Kinschel D, Cannelli O, Sorokin B, Katayama T, Mancini GF, et al.
Femtosecond X-ray spectroscopy of haem proteins
Faraday Discussions. 2021; 228: 312-328. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0fd00131g
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David C, Seniutinas G, Makita M, Rösner B, Rehanek J, Karvinen P, et al.
Spectral monitoring at SwissFEL using a high-resolution on-line hard X-ray single-shot spectrometer
Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 2021; 28: 1978-1984. https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600577521009619
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Nass K, Bacellar C, Cirelli C, Dworkowski F, Gevorkov Y, James D, et al.
Pink-beam serial femtosecond crystallography for accurate structure-factor determination at an X-ray free-electron laser
IUCrJ. 2021; 8: 905-920. https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052252521008046
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Bacellar C, Kinschel D, Mancini GF, Ingle RA, Rouxel J, Cannelli O, et al.
Heme doming in ferric Cytochrome c: femtosecond X-ray absorption and X-ray emission studies
In: The 22nd international conference on ultrafast phenomena 2020. International conference on ultrafast phenomena. Conference proceedings 2000-2020. Washington, D.C.: OSA; 2020:Th1A.2 (3 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1364/UP.2020.Th1A.2
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Bacellar C, Kinschel D, Mancini GF, Ingle RA, Rouxel J, Cannelli O, et al.
Spin cascade and doming in ferric hemes: femtosecond X-ray absorption and X-ray emission studies
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America PNAS. 2020; 117(36): 21914-21920. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2009490117
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Fadini A, Reiche S, Nass K, van Thor JJ
Applications and limits of time-to-energy mapping of protein crystal diffraction using energy-chirped polychromatic XFEL pulses
Applied Sciences. 2020; 10(7): 2599 (18 pp.). https://doi.org/10.3390/app10072599
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Nass K, Cheng R, Vera L, Mozzanica A, Redford S, Ozerov D, et al.
Advances in long-wavelength native phasing at X-ray free-electron lasers
IUCrJ. 2020; 7: 965-975. https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052252520011379
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Poulter BI, Biasin E, Liekhus-Schmaltz C, Arrell C, Augustin S, Cirelli C, et al.
Ultrafast charge transfer and electron delocalization in a cyanide-bridged Ru-Ru dimer investigated with femtosecond transient X-ray and IR spectroscopies
In: International conference on ultrafast phenomena. International conference on ultrafast phenomena. Conference proceedings 2000-2020. Washington, D.C.: OSA; 2020:Th1A.4 (3 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1364/UP.2020.Th1A.4
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Prat E, Abela R, Aiba M, Alarcon A, Alex J, Arbelo Y, et al.
A compact and cost-effective hard X-ray free-electron laser driven by a high-brightness and low-energy electron beam
Nature Photonics. 2020; 14: 748-754. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-020-00712-8
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Skopintsev P, Ehrenberg D, Weinert T, James D, Kar RK, Johnson PJM, et al.
Femtosecond-to-millisecond structural changes in a light-driven sodium pump
Nature. 2020; 583: 314-318. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2307-8
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Smolentsev G, Milne CJ, Guda A, Haldrup K, Szlachetko J, Azzaroli N, et al.
Taking a snapshot of the triplet excited state of an OLED organometallic luminophore using X-rays
Nature Communications. 2020; 11: 2131 (9 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15998-z
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Spielmann S, Flechsig U, Thominet V, Follath R, Krempasky J, Wagner U, et al.
Mirror systems for SwissFEL, from concept to commissioning with x-rays
In: Gwo S, Huang D-J, Wei D-H, eds. Proceedings of the 13th international conference on synchrotron radiation instrumentation - SRI2018. Vol. 2054. AIP conference proceedings. AIP Publishing; 2019:060001 (5 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5084632
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Svetina C, Mankowsky R, Knopp G, Koch F, Seniutinas G, Rösner B, et al.
Towards X-ray transient grating spectroscopy
Optics Letters. 2019; 44(3): 574-577. https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.44.000574
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Rehanek J, Milne CJ, Szlachetko J, Czapla-Masztafiak J, Schneider J, Huthwelker T, et al.
A compact and versatile tender X-ray single-shot spectrometer for online XFEL diagnostics
Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 2018; 25(1): 16-19. https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600577517012796
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Abela R, Beaud P, van Bokhoven JA, Chergui M, Feurer T, Haase J, et al.
Perspective: opportunities for ultrafast science at SwissFEL
Structural Dynamics. 2017; 4(6): 61602 (25 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4997222
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Milne CJ, Beaud P, Deng Y, Erny C, Follath R, Flechsig U, et al.
Opportunities for chemistry at the SwissFEL X-ray free electron laser
Chimia. 2017; 71(5): 299-307. https://doi.org/10.2533/chimia.2017.299
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Orlandi GL, Ischebeck R, Ozkan Loch C, Schlott V, Ferianis M, Penco G
Design and experimental tests of the SwissFEL wire-scanners
In: Costa I, Iriso U, Pérez F, Schaa VRW, eds. International beam instrumentation conference. IBIC. Vol. 5. International beam instrumentation conference. Geneva, Switzerland: JACoW Publishing; 2017:225-228. https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IBIC2016-MOPG66
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Seddon EA, Clarke JA, Dunning DJ, Masciovecchio C, Milne CJ, Parmigiani F, et al.
Short-wavelength free-electron laser sources and science: a review
Reports on Progress in Physics. 2017; 80(11): 115901 (73 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6633/aa7cca
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Szlachetko J, Nachtegaal M, Grolimund D, Knopp G, Peredkov S, Czapla-Masztafiak J, et al.
A dispersive inelastic X-ray scattering spectrometer for use at X-ray free electron lasers
Applied Sciences. 2017; 7(9): 899 (10 pp.). https://doi.org/10.3390/app7090899
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