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Probing the Birth and Ultrafast Dynamics of Hydrated Electrons at the Gold/Liquid Water Interface via an Optoelectronic Approach.


ABSTRACT: The hydrated electron has fundamental and practical significance in radiation and radical chemistry, catalysis, and radiobiology. While its bulk properties have been extensively studied, its behavior at solid/liquid interfaces is still unclear due to the lack of effective tools to characterize this short-lived species in between two condensed matter layers. In this study, we develop a novel optoelectronic technique for the characterization of the birth and structural evolution of solvated electrons at the metal/liquid interface with a femtosecond time resolution. Using this tool, we record for the first time the transient spectra (in a photon energy range from 0.31 to 1.85 eV) in situ with a time resolution of 50 fs revealing several novel aspects of their properties at the interface. Especially the transient species show state-dependent optical transition behaviors from being isotropic in the hot state to perpendicular to the surface in the trapped and solvated states. The technique will enable a better understanding of hot electron driven reactions at electrochemical interfaces.

SUBMITTER: Lapointe F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7596759 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Probing the Birth and Ultrafast Dynamics of Hydrated Electrons at the Gold/Liquid Water Interface via an Optoelectronic Approach.

Lapointe François F   Wolf Martin M   Campen R Kramer RK   Tong Yujin Y  

Journal of the American Chemical Society 20200929 43


The hydrated electron has fundamental and practical significance in radiation and radical chemistry, catalysis, and radiobiology. While its bulk properties have been extensively studied, its behavior at solid/liquid interfaces is still unclear due to the lack of effective tools to characterize this short-lived species in between two condensed matter layers. In this study, we develop a novel optoelectronic technique for the characterization of the birth and structural evolution of solvated electr  ...[more]

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