We explore the structure of a series of protic Ionic Liquids based on the choline cation and amino acid anions. In the series, the length and the branching of the amino acid alkyl chain varies. Ab initio molecular dynamics, X-ray diffraction measurements, and infrared spectra have been used to provide a reliable picture of the short-range structure and of the short-time dynamic process that characterize the fluids. We have put special emphasis on the peculiar and complicated network of hydrogen bonds that stem from the amphoteric nature of the anion moiety. The use of ab initio molecular dynamics allows us to calculate the "exact" charge density of the system and hence to obtain fairly accurate infrared spectra that, in turn, have been used to assign the experimental ones.
Abstract:The ultra-short electron beams, produced through the velocity bunching compression technique at the SPARC_LAB test Facility (Frascati, Italy), are used to produce Coherent Transition Radiation in the terahertz (THz) range. This paper reports on the main features of this THz source, which have a spectral coverage up to 5 THz, a pulse duration down to 100 fs, and an energy per pulse on the order of tens of µJ. These figures of merits open the possibility to apply this source for nonlinear and THz pump-probe experiments in Solid-State Physics and material science.
Topological insulator nanoparticles (TINPs) host topologically protected Dirac surface states, just like their bulk counterparts. For TINPs of radius < 100 nm, quantum confinement on the surface results in the...
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