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EPSRC Reference: EP/V047787/1
Title: Time-resolved Intramolecular Photoelectron Diffraction (TIPD) of Ions in the Gas-phase
Principal Investigator: Verlet, Professor JRR
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Department: Chemistry
Organisation: Durham, University of
Scheme: Standard Research - NR1
Starts: 16 April 2021 Ends: 15 April 2023 Value (£): 201,482
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Analytical Science
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R&D
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Being able to probe structural (electronic and geometric) change on the timescale of atomic motion

(femtoseconds) offers the most direct route to understanding the structure-function relationship in

chemistry, which underpins much of modern technology. Here, we propose the conceptually novel

method, Time-resolved Intramolecular Photoelectron Diffraction (TIPD), in which photoelectrons are

diffracted from negatively-charged functional groups in a mass-selected gas-phase polyanion. The

measured interferogram contains structural information about the location of charge-sites relative to

the molecular orbital from which an electron is detached. It can be measured with sub-100 fs

resolution to enable real-time probing of photoinduced processes including charge-transfer

processes and structural transformations in, for example, proteins and conducting polymers.
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