IRFEL Selective Irradiation of Amorphous Solid Water: from Dangling to Bulk Modes

Autor: Stephane Coussan, Jennifer A. Noble, Herma M. Cuppen, Britta Redlich, Sergio Ioppolo
Přispěvatelé: Physique des interactions ioniques et moléculaires (PIIM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institute for Molecules and Materials [Nijmegen], Radboud University [Nijmegen], Queen Mary University of London (QMUL)
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 126, 2262-2269
The Journal of Physical Chemistry
The Journal of Physical Chemistry, 2022, pp.2262-2269. ⟨10.1021/acs.jpca.2c00054⟩
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 126, 14, pp. 2262-2269
ISSN: 1089-5639
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c00054⟩
Popis: Amorphous solid water (ASW) is one of the most widely studied solid phase systems. A better understanding of the nature of inter- and intramolecular forces in ASW is, however, still required to correctly interpret the catalytic role of ASW in the formation and preservation of molecular species in environments such as the icy surfaces of Solar System objects, on interstellar icy dust grains and potentially even in the upper layers of the Earth's atmosphere. In this work, we have systematically exposed porous ASW (pASW) to mid-infrared radiation generated by a free-electron laser at the HFML-FELIX facility in the Netherlands to study the effect of vibrational energy injection into the surface and bulk modes of pASW. During multiple sequential irradiations on the same ice spot, we observed selective effects both at the surface and in the bulk of the ice. Although the density of states in pASW should allow for a fast vibrational relaxation through the H-bonded network, part of the injected energy is converted into structural ice changes as illustrated by the observation of spectral modifications when performing Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy in reflection-absorption mode. Future studies will include the quantification of such effects by systematically investigating ice thickness, ice morphology, and ice composition.
Published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
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