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Aims and Objectives - Structural Dynamics
Structural Dynamics aims at capitalizing on the recent developments in experimental and theoretical methods and techniques that allow a visualization of the electronic and geometric structural changes in #8220;real-time#8221; of chemical, biological and condensed matter systems. The community of scientists and engineers working on structural dynamics in such diverse systems often use similar instrumentation and methods.
The journal welcomes articles dealing with fundamental problems of electronic and structural dynamics that are tackled by new methods such as:
- Time-resolved X-ray and electron diffraction and scattering
- Coherent diffractive imaging
- Time-resolved X-ray spectroscopies (absorption, emission, resonant inelastic scattering, etc.)
- Time-resolved Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (EELS) and electron microscopy
- Time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopies (UPS, XPS, ARPES, etc.)
- Multidimensional spectroscopies in the infrared, the visible and the ultraviolet
- Nonlinear spectroscopies in the VUV, the soft and the hard X-ray domains
- Theory and Computational methods and algorithms for the analysis and description of structural dynamics and their associated experimental signals.
These new methods are enabled by new instrumentation such as:
- X-ray free electron lasers, which provide flux, coherence and time resolution
- New sources of ultrashort electron pulses
- New sources of ultrashort Vacuum Ultraviolet (VUV) to hard X-ray pulses, such as high harmonic generation (HHG) sources or plasma-based sources
- New sources of ultrashort infrared and terahertz (THz) radiation
- New detectors for X-rays and electrons
- New sample handling and delivery schemes
- New computational capabilities
The journal welcomes articles that deal either with scientific or technical aspects of these new methods and instruments. Experimental papers are expected to be brought into relation with theory, and theoretical papers should be connected to present or future experiments.
The journal accepts Short Communications, Topical Reviews and Regular Articles in the following subjects:
- Experimental Methodologies
- Theory and Modelling
- Surfaces and Interfaces
- Materials
- Liquids and Solutions
- Biological Systems
Letter from the Editor
Capitalizing on recent experimental and theoretical advances, the journal aims at providing a forum for the community of scientists working on the development, implementation and use of new tools for the determination of static and time-evolving structures. This community includes scientists dealing with different aspects of structural dynamics in relation to problems in atomic and molecular physics, condensed matter physics and materials science, chemistry and biology, that often use similar experimental (Synchrotrons, X-ray free electron lasers, Ultrashort UV-visible lasers, ultrashort electron pulses, Laboratory sources of ultrashort X-ray pulses, High harmonic generation sources) and theoretical (Molecular dynamics simulations, quantum chemical calculations, etc.) tools.
We therefore encourage submissions in areas such as:
- Static structure Determination and Imaging.
- Dynamical (i.e. time-domain) structural studies with a time resolution from femtoseconds to milliseconds and spatial resolutions from the #197; to the micron.
- Electronic structure studies that underlie structures at equilibrium and/or their evolution over time.
- Theoretical modelling and computational studies of all the above.
Submissions are also welcome dealing with the methodological aspects of structural studies and their time-dependence, such as:
- X-ray diffraction (crystallography) and X-ray scattering.
- X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XANES and EXAFS).
- Electron diffraction, scattering and microscopy.
- Coherent X-ray imaging.
- Core-level spectroscopies: Photoelectron spectroscopy (PS), Photoemission, X-ray emission spectroscopy (XES), resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS), Electron-energy-loss-spectroscopy (EELS).
- NMR spectroscopies.
- Vibrational (infrared) and electronic (visible-UV) multidimensional spectroscopies.
The journal thus welcomes articles dealing with scientific questions related to structure determination and dynamics, driven by emerging experimental methodologies and technical developments. The journal will therefore contain the following sections:
- Short Communications
- Theory and Modelling
- Experimental Methodologies
- Materials and Surfaces
- Biological Systems
- Liquids, Solutions and Interfaces
Structural Dynamics will combine high quality peer review with a streamlined publication process to highlight your results. We very much look forward to receiving your articles.
Editor-in-Chief
Professor Majed Chergui
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