Synchrotron Spectroscopy

Mukerjee, S. and Urian, R.C., Bifunctionality in Pt alloy nanocluster electrocatalysts for enhanced methanol oxidation and CO tolerance in PEM fuel cells electrochemical and in situ synchrotron spectroscopy, Electrochim. Acta, 47, 3219, 2002. 

Time resolved synchrotron spectroscopy of excited fluorescence of anthracene single crystals has been published and the time resolved and temperature dependent fluorescence spectra of anthracene and pyrene in both the liquid and crystalline reported states Excimer emission is observed. 

In this endeavor synchrotron spectroscopy has played an important role in understanding the effect of fundamental parameters such as electronic density of states and short-range atomic order. The primary advantages of using the synchrotron are (1) the ability to probe these parameters in situ while the interface is under electrochemical control and (2) the fact that these can be measured with element specificity. The latter is particularly useful when investigating multi-component alloy clusters. In addition, this technique lends itself to systems with limited long-range order, which is typical for these nanoclusters used in fuel-cell electrode interface. This chapter describes some recent results with in-situ X-ray absorption spectroscopy, which has provided a direct probe into the variations of the Pt i/-band vacancy (normalized with respect to number of surface atoms) between... 

The FTIR synchrotron spectroscopy of rat glioma cells treated with cisplatin revealed changes in the spectra from which the ANN analysis was able to correctly classify cisplatin-exposed or control cells. The spectral features identified as statistically significant for this classification were consistent with features identified by examination of averaged spectra from the two conditions. Moreover the neural network was able to correctly classify an independent test set of spectra based on a model that examined only the profile of the asymmetric phosphodiester stretching vibration band. 

The combination of FTIR synchrotron spectroscopy and multivariate data analysis applied to rat glioma cells exposed to cisplatin indicates mainly a change in the absorbance band profile of the asymmetric phosphodiester stretching vibration ( 1241-1228 cm region). Based on the fact that a blue-shift in the asymmetric phosphate stretching vibration, characteristic of RNA, was observed it is hypothesized that the changes observed in the spectra of cisplatin-exposed cells are in response to mRNA activity as opposed to changes in nuclear condensation. 

Ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy (UPS) is a variety of photoelectron spectroscopy that is aimed at measuring the valence band, as described in sectionBl.25.2.3. Valence band spectroscopy is best perfonned with photon energies in the range of 20-50 eV. A He discharge lamp, which can produce 21.2 or 40.8 eV photons, is commonly used as the excitation source m the laboratory, or UPS can be perfonned with synchrotron radiation. Note that UPS is sometimes just referred to as photoelectron spectroscopy (PES), or simply valence band photoemission. 

Flimpsel F J, McFeely F R, Morar J F, Taleb-lbrahimi A and Yarmoff J A 1990 Core level spectroscopy at silicon surfaces and interfaces Proc. Enrico Fermi School on Photoemission and Adsorption Spectroscopy and Interfaces with Synchrotron Radiation vo course CVIII, eds M Campagna and R Rose (Amsterdam Elsevier) p 203... 

Smith N V and Himpsel F J 1983 Photoelectron spectroscopy Handbook on Synchrotron Radiation ed E E Koch (Amsterdam North-Holland)... 

Eland, J. H. D. (1983) Photoelectron Spectroscopy. 2nd edn, Butterworth-Heinemann, London. Huffier, S. (2001) Photoelectron Spectroscopy Principles and Applications. 3rd edn. Springer, Berlin. Prince, K. C. (1995) Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Solids and Suifaces Synchrotron Radiation Techniques and Applications, World Scientific Publishing, Singapore. 

The only X-ray source with sufficient intensity for surface measurements is synchrotron radiation. Synchrotron radiation is white light, including all wavelengths ftom the infrared to X rays. A spectroscopy experiment needs a particular wavelength (photon energy) to be selected with a monochromator and scanned through... 

X-ray absorption spectroscopy is an important part of the armory of techniques for examining pure and applied problems in surface physics and chemistry. The basic physical principles are well understood, and the experimental methods and data analysis have advanced to sophisticated levels, allowing difficult problems to be solved. For some scientists the inconvenience of having to visit synchrotron radia-... 

Reinvestigation of iron porphyrins by Mossbauer spectroscopy using synchrotron radiation 98PAC917. 

Other techniques utilize various types of radiation for the investigation of polymer surfaces (Fig. 2). X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) has been known in surface analysis for approximately 23 years and is widely applied for the analysis of the chemical composition of polymer surfaces. It is more commonly referred to as electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis (ESCA) [22]. It is a very widespread technique for surface analysis since a wide range of information can be obtained. The surface is exposed to monochromatic X-rays from e.g. a rotating anode generator or a synchrotron source and the energy spectrum of electrons emitted... 

The major advantage of time-resolved X-ray techniques, as compared to optical spectroscopy, is that their wavelength X as well as the pulse duration r can be chosen to fit the atomic scales. This is not the case for optical spectroscopy, where the wavelength X exceeds interatomic distances by three orders of magnitude at least. Unfortunately, X-ray techniques also have their drawbacks. They require large-scale instruments such as the synchrotron. Even much larger... 

Single-line sources are now available which cut down the number of resonance lines in a spectrum and thereby reduce the resolution problems considerably. Since many laboratories have access to electron and ion accelerators to produce the parent nuclides Co and Cu, the major experimental obstacles to Ni spectroscopy have been overcome and a good deal of successful work has been performed in recent years. Moreover, the development of synchrotron radiation instead of conventional Mossbauer sources is of additional advantage for future Mossbauer applications (see below). 

Ta foil Nuclear forward scattering of synchrotron radiation (NFS) at Ta resonance in Ta foil without and with applied magnetic field, point out advantages over conventional Ta Mossbauer spectroscopy... 

Nuclear Resonance Scattering Using Synchrotron Radiation (Mossbauer Spectroscopy in the Time Domain)... 

NIS of synchrotron radiation yields details of the dynamics of Mossbauer nuclei, while conventional MS yields only limited information in this respect (comprised in the Lamb-Mossbauer factor /). NIS shows some similarity with Resonance Raman- and IR-spectroscopy. The major difference is that, instead of an electronic resonance (Raman and IR), a nuclear resonance is employed (NIS). NIS is site-selective, i.e., only those molecular vibrations that contribute to the overall... 

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