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Jurczyk J, Pillatsch L, Berger L, Priebe A, Madajska K, Kapusta C, Szymańska IB, Michler J, Utke I. In Situ Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry of Ionic Fragments Induced by Focused Electron Beam Irradiation: Investigation of Electron Driven Surface Chemistry inside an SEM under High Vacuum. NANOMATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 12:2710. [PMID: 35957140 PMCID: PMC9370286 DOI: 10.3390/nano12152710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2022] [Revised: 07/22/2022] [Accepted: 07/29/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Recent developments in nanoprinting using focused electron beams have created a need to develop analysis methods for the products of electron-induced fragmentation of different metalorganic compounds. The original approach used here is termed focused-electron-beam-induced mass spectrometry (FEBiMS). FEBiMS enables the investigation of the fragmentation of electron-sensitive materials during irradiation within the typical primary electron beam energy range of a scanning electron microscope (0.5 to 30 keV) and high vacuum range. The method combines a typical scanning electron microscope with an ion-extractor-coupled mass spectrometer setup collecting the charged fragments generated by the focused electron beam when impinging on the substrate material. The FEBiMS of fragments obtained during 10 keV electron irradiation of grains of silver and copper carboxylates and shows that the carboxylate ligand dissociates into many smaller volatile fragments. Furthermore, in situ FEBiMS was performed on carbonyls of ruthenium (solid) and during electron-beam-induced deposition, using tungsten carbonyl (inserted via a gas injection system). Loss of carbonyl ligands was identified as the main channel of dissociation for electron irradiation of these carbonyl compounds. The presented results clearly indicate that FEBiMS analysis can be expanded to organic, inorganic, and metal organic materials used in resist lithography, ice (cryo-)lithography, and focused-electron-beam-induced deposition and becomes, thus, a valuable versatile analysis tool to study both fundamental and process parameters in these nanotechnology fields.
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- Jakub Jurczyk
- Laboratory for Mechanics of Materials and Nanostructures, Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Feuerwerkerstrasse 39, CH-3602 Thun, Switzerland
- Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology Krakow, Al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland
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- TOFWERK AG, Schorenstrasse 39, CH-3645 Thun, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Mechanics of Materials and Nanostructures, Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Feuerwerkerstrasse 39, CH-3602 Thun, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Mechanics of Materials and Nanostructures, Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Feuerwerkerstrasse 39, CH-3602 Thun, Switzerland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Gagarina 7, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
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- Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology Krakow, Al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Gagarina 7, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
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- Laboratory for Mechanics of Materials and Nanostructures, Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Feuerwerkerstrasse 39, CH-3602 Thun, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Mechanics of Materials and Nanostructures, Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Feuerwerkerstrasse 39, CH-3602 Thun, Switzerland
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Effect of single and double methylation on the position of the π∗ shape resonance of formamide and acetamide. Chem Phys 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2021.111432] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Pshenichnyuk SA, Modelli A. Electron Attachment to Isolated Molecules as a Probe to Understand Mitochondrial Reductive Processes. Methods Mol Biol 2021; 2277:101-124. [PMID: 34080147 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1270-5_7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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This chapter describes the complementary experimental techniques Electron Transmission Spectroscopy and Dissociative Electron Attachment Spectroscopy, two of the most suitable means for investigating interactions between electrons and gas-phase molecules, resonance formation of temporary molecular negative ions, and their possible decay through the dissociative electron attachment (DEA) mechanism. The latter can be seen as the gas-phase counterpart of the transfer of a solvated electron in solution, accompanied by dissociation of the molecular anion, referred to as dissociative electron transfer (DET). DET takes place in vivo under reductive conditions, for instance, in the intermembrane space of mitochondria under interaction of xenobiotic molecules possessing high electron affinity with electrons "leaked" from the mitochondrial respiratory chain. A likely mechanism of the toxic activity of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane based on its DEA properties is briefly outlined, and compared with the well-established harmful effects of the model toxicant carbon tetrachloride ascribed to reductive dechlorination in a cellular ambient. A possible mechanism of the antioxidant activity of polyphenolic compounds present near the main site of superoxide anion production in mitochondria is also briefly discussed.
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- Stanislav A Pshenichnyuk
- Institute of Molecule and Crystal Physics, Ufa Federal Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia.
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- Dipartimento di Chimica "G. Ciamician", Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca in Scienze Ambientali, Ravenna, Italy
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Prajapati D, Yadav H, Vinodkumar M, Limbachiya C, Vinodkumar PC. Electron impact scattering study on chlorobenzene. Mol Phys 2018. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2018.1554191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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- Dineshkumar Prajapati
- Shree M R Arts & Science College, Rajpipla, India
- Department of Physics, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, India
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- Department of Physics, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, India
- V. P. & R. P. T. P. Science College, Vallabh Vidyanagar, India
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- Department of Applied Physics, The M. S. University of Baroda, Vadodara, India
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- Department of Physics, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, India
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- Hitesh Yadav
- Department of Physics, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, India
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- Department of Electronics, V P & R P T P Science College, Vallabh Vidyanagar, India
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- Department of Applied Physics, The M. S. University of Baroda, Vadodara, India
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- Department of Physics, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, India
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Pshenichnyuk SA, Modelli A. ETS and DEAS studies of the reduction of xenobiotics in mitochondrial intermembrane space. Methods Mol Biol 2015; 1265:285-305. [PMID: 25634282 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2288-8_20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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This chapter describes the complementary experimental techniques electron transmission spectroscopy (ETS) and dissociative electron attachment spectroscopy (DEAS), two of the most suitable means for investigating interactions between electrons and gas-phase molecules, resonance formation of temporary molecular negative ions, and their possible decay through the dissociative electron attachment (DEA) mechanism. The latter can be seen as the gas-phase counterpart of the transfer of a solvated electron in solution, accompanied by dissociation of the molecular anion, referred to as dissociative electron transfer (DET). DET takes place in vivo under reductive conditions, for instance, in the intermembrane space of mitochondria under interaction of xenobiotic molecules with electrons "leaked" from the respiration chain. Experimental procedures supported by suitable quantum chemical calculations are described in detail and illustrated by an example of ETS/DEAS study of rhodanine which shows rich fragmentation under gas-phase resonance electron attachment.
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- Stanislav A Pshenichnyuk
- Institute of Molecule and Crystal Physics, Ufa Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospeкt Oktyabrya 151, 450075, Ufa, Russia,
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Janečková R, Kubala D, May O, Fedor J, Allan M. Experimental evidence on the mechanism of dissociative electron attachment to formic acid. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2013; 111:213201. [PMID: 24313485 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.111.213201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Two mechanisms for dissociative electron attachment in HCOOH, the formation of HCOO(-)+H, were proposed in the literature: (i) via a direct electron attachment into a σ* resonance, augmented by dipole binding of the incident electron [G. A. Gallup et al., Phys. Rev. A 79, 042701 (2009)], and (ii) with the 1.8 eV π* resonance as a doorway state, linked to the products by symmetry lowering-distortion of the temporary anion, primarily the C-H bond, from the planar symmetry [T. N. Rescigno et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 213201 (2006)]. The later mechanism implies a reduction of the cross section upon deuteration of the hydrogen bonded to the C atom, whereas the former mechanism would leave the cross section unaffected. Our experimental absolute cross sections for the four isotopomers of formic acid show that deuteration on the C atom reduces the cross section value only marginally (by 12%) compared to deuteration on the O atom (reduction by a factor of 16), and thus favor mechanism (i).
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- R Janečková
- Department of Chemistry, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 9, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
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Munro JJ, Harrison S, Fujimoto MM, Tennyson J. A dissociative electron attachment cross-section estimator. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/388/1/012013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Gallup GA, Fabrikant II. Dissociative electron attachment to CH2Cl2, CHCH3Cl2, and C(CH3)2Cl2. J Chem Phys 2011; 135:134316. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3646500] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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