List of works by Michael Ashfold

3-D patterning of silicon by laser-initiated, liquid-assisted colloidal (LILAC) lithography

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A 'bottom up', ab initio computational approach to understanding fundamental photophysical processes in nitrogen containing heterocycles, DNA bases and base pairs.

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A Multipronged Comparative Study of the Ultraviolet Photochemistry of 2-, 3-, and 4-Chlorophenol in the Gas Phase.

scientific article published on 18 February 2015

A desorption mechanism of water following vacuum-ultraviolet irradiation on amorphous solid water at 90 K

scientific article published on 01 April 2010

A reinvestigation of the near-ultraviolet photodissociation dynamics of the methyl radical

A theoretical and experimental study on translational and internal energies of H2O and OH from the 157 nm irradiation of amorphous solid water at 90 K

scientific article published on 09 August 2011

A velocity map imaging study of the one and two photon dissociations of state-selected DCl+ cations

scientific article published on 01 November 2006

Ab Initio Study of Potential Ultrafast Internal Conversion Routes in Oxybenzone, Caffeic Acid, and Ferulic Acid: Implications for Sunscreens

scientific article published on 25 August 2014

Amontonian frictional behaviour of nanostructured surfaces.

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Arrays of nanorods composed of ZnO nanodots exhibiting enhanced UV emission and stability

scientific article published on 07 August 2014

Boron doping: B/H/C/O gas-phase chemistry; H atom density dependences on pressure and wire temperature; puzzles regarding the gas-surface mechanism

Broadband ultrafast photoprotection by oxybenzone across the UVB and UVC spectral regions

scientific article published on 01 October 2015

Combined Spatially Resolved Optical Emission Imaging and Modeling Studies of Microwave-Activated H2/Ar and H2/Kr Plasmas Operating at Powers and Pressures Relevant for Diamond Chemical Vapor Deposition

scientific article published on 26 March 2019

Comment on “Predissociation of ammonia à state studied by microwave—optical double resonance spectroscopy”

article published in 1991

Communication: Multi-mass velocity map imaging study of the ultraviolet photodissociation of dimethyl sulfide using single photon ionization and a PImMS2 sensor

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Comparing molecular photofragmentation dynamics in the gas and liquid phases

scientific article published on 04 April 2013

Competing 1πσ* mediated dynamics in mequinol: O-H versus O-CH3 photodissociation pathways.

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Computational studies of elementary steps relating to boron doping during diamond chemical vapour deposition

scientific article published on 01 March 2005

Contrasting the excited state reaction pathways of phenol and para-methylthiophenol in the gas and liquid phases.

scientific article published in January 2012

Controlling Electronic Product Branching at Conical Intersections in the UV Photolysis of para-Substituted Thiophenols

scientific article published on 14 November 2012

Coulomb explosion imaging for gas-phase molecular structure determination: An ab initio trajectory simulation study

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

Determination of Stark parameters by cross-calibration in a multi-element laser-induced plasma

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Diamond growth on WC-Co substrates by hot filament chemical vapor deposition: Effect of filament–substrate separation

Dynamical insights into (1)pi sigma(*) state mediated photodissociation of aniline.

scientific article published in June 2010

Dynamics of chemical bond: general discussion

scientific article published on 01 January 2015

Dynamics of hot electron generation in metallic nanostructures: general discussion

scientific article published on 16 May 2019

Effect of incident fluence on the growth of ZnO nanorods by pulsed excimer laser deposition

Effects of Ring Fluorination on the Ultraviolet Photodissociation Dynamics of Phenol

scientific article published on 12 November 2020

Effects of thickness and cycle parameters on fretting wear behavior of CVD diamond coatings on steel substrates

article published in 2010

Excited state non-adiabatic dynamics of N-methylpyrrole: A time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy and quantum dynamics study

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Excited state non-adiabatic dynamics of pyrrole: A time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy and quantum dynamics study

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Experimental and Modeling Studies of B Atom Number Density Distributions in Hot Filament Activated B2H6/H2and B2H6/CH4/H2Gas Mixtures†

scientific article published on 01 March 2006

Exploring Autoionization and Photoinduced Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Pathways of Phenol in Aqueous Solution.

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Exploring Norrish type I and type II reactions: an ab initio mechanistic study highlighting singlet-state mediated chemistry

scientific article published on 19 March 2019

Exploring the Dynamics of the Photoinduced Ring-Opening of Heterocyclic Molecules

scientific article published on 29 June 2017

Exploring the Plasma Chemistry in Microwave Chemical Vapor Deposition of Diamond from C/H/O Gas Mixtures

scientific article published on 18 September 2012

Exploring the energy disposal immediately after bond-breaking in solution: the wavelength-dependent excited state dissociation pathways of para-methylthiophenol.

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Exploring the mechanisms of H atom loss in simple azoles: Ultraviolet photolysis of pyrazole and triazole.

scientific article published in February 2010

Extreme population inversion in the fragments formed by UV photoinduced S-H bond fission in 2-thiophenethiol

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Filament seasoning and its effect on the chemistry prevailing in hot filament activated gas mixtures used in diamond chemical vapour deposition

Fragmentation dynamics of the ethyl bromide and ethyl iodide cations: a velocity-map imaging study

scientific article published on 01 February 2014

Fretting wear and electrochemical corrosion of well-adhered CVD diamond films deposited on steel substrates with a WC–Co interlayer

Growth mechanisms for ZnO nanorods formed by pulsed laser deposition

article published in 2006

Growth of aligned ZnO nanorod arrays by catalyst-free pulsed laser deposition methods

article published in 2004

Growth of arrays of Al-doped ZnO nanocones by pulsed laser deposition

scientific article published on 02 November 2007

High resolution photofragment translational spectroscopy of the near UV photolysis of indole: dissociation via the 1pi sigma* state.

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High resolution photofragment translational spectroscopy studies of the near ultraviolet photolysis of 2,5-dimethylpyrrole

scientific article published on 23 November 2005

High resolution photofragment translational spectroscopy studies of the near ultraviolet photolysis of phenol

scientific article published on 01 October 2006

High resolution photofragment translational spectroscopy studies of the ultraviolet photolysis of phenol-d(5).

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High-resolution absorption cross sections of formaldehyde at wavelengths from 313 to 320 nm.

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Hydroxyl super rotors from vacuum ultraviolet photodissociation of water

scientific article published on 19 March 2019

Imaging and Modeling the Optical Emission from CH Radicals in Microwave Activated C/H Plasmas

scientific article published on 07 November 2019

Imaging molecular dynamics

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Imaging studies of the photodissociation of H2S+ cations. I. Illustrations of the role of nuclear spin

scientific article published on 01 December 2007

Imaging studies of the photodissociation of NH3+ and ND3+ cations.

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Imaging the dynamics of gas phase reactions.

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KOALA: a program for the processing and decomposition of transient spectra

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Linking photochemistry in the gas and solution phase: S–H bond fission in p-methylthiophenol following UV photoexcitation

scientific article published on 01 January 2011

Local and Global Dynamics: general discussion

scientific article published on 01 January 2015

Mechanistic insights into excited state intramolecular proton transfer in isolated and metal chelated supramolecular chemosensors.

scientific article published on 14 November 2016

Microwave Plasma-Activated Chemical Vapor Deposition of Nitrogen-Doped Diamond. I. N2/H2 and NH3/H2 Plasmas.

scientific article published on 23 November 2015

Multiphoton Spectroscopy, Applications*

Multiphoton dissociation dynamics of BrCl and the BrCl+ cation.

scientific article published on 30 August 2007

Near ultraviolet photochemistry of 2-bromo- and 2-iodothiophene: Revealing photoinduced ring opening in the gas phase?

scientific article published on 01 June 2015

Near ultraviolet photolysis of deuterated pyrrole

scientific article published on 23 June 2006

Near-UV photolysis of substituted phenols, I: 4-fluoro-, 4-chloro- and 4-bromophenol

scientific article published on 29 May 2007

Near-UV photolysis of substituted phenols. Part II. 4-, 3- and 2-methylphenol

scientific article published on 16 September 2008

Near-ultraviolet photodissociation of thiophenol

scientific article published on 28 June 2008

Nitrogen in Diamond

scientific article published on 12 February 2020

Number density and temperature of acetylene in hot-filament and arc-jet activated CH4/H2 gas mixtures measured using diode laser cavity ring-down absorption spectroscopy

On the Role of Carbon Radical Insertion Reactions in the Growth of Diamond by Chemical Vapor Deposition Methods

scientific article published on 01 October 2009

On the mechanism of H atom production in hot filament activated H2 and CH4/H2 gas mixtures

scientific article published on 01 July 2009

On the participation of photoinduced N-H bond fission in aqueous adenine at 266 and 220 nm: a combined ultrafast transient electronic and vibrational absorption spectroscopy study.

scientific article published on 24 October 2014

Optical Emission from C2- Anions in Microwave-Activated CH4/H2 Plasmas for Chemical Vapor Deposition of Diamond

scientific article published on 20 March 2017

Optical emission from microwave activated C/H/O gas mixtures for diamond chemical vapor deposition

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Pattern formation on silicon by laser-initiated liquid-assisted colloidal lithography.

scientific article published on 21 October 2015

Photo-induced electron transfer: general discussion

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Photo-protection/photo-damage in natural systems: general discussion

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Photochemistry of formaldehyde under tropospheric conditions

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Photodissociation and photoionization of pyrrole following the multiphoton excitation at 243 and 364.7 nm.

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Photodissociation of polycrystalline and amorphous water ice films at 157 and 193 nm.

scientific article published in October 2006

Photofragment Translational Spectroscopy Studies of H Atom Loss Following Ultraviolet Photoexcitation of Methimazole in the Gas Phase

scientific article published on 13 December 2018

Photofragment slice imaging studies of pyrrole and the Xe...pyrrole cluster.

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Photofragmentation Dynamics in Solution Probed by Transient IR Absorption Spectroscopy: πσ*-Mediated Bond Cleavage in p-Methylthiophenol and p-Methylthioanisole.

scientific article published on 3 December 2012

Photofragmentation dynamics of N,N-dimethylformamide following excitation at 193 nm.

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Photoinduced C-H bond fission in prototypical organic molecules and radicals

scientific article published on 23 January 2019

Photoinitiated quantum molecular dynamics: Concluding Remarks

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Photoprotection: extending lessons learned from studying natural sunscreens to the design of artificial sunscreen constituents.

scientific article published on 5 June 2017

Photovoltaics and bio-inspired light harvesting: general discussion

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Pi sigma* excited states in molecular photochemistry.

scientific article published on 23 December 2009

Position matters: competing O–H and N–H photodissociation pathways in hydroxy- and methoxy-substituted indoles

scientific article published on 13 July 2011

Probing the Ultrafast Energy Dissipation Mechanism of the Sunscreen Oxybenzone after UVA Irradiation

scientific article published on 30 March 2015

Quantifying rival bond fission probabilities following photoexcitation: C-S bond fission in t-butylmethylsulfide

scientific article published on 23 April 2019

Quantitative (upsilon, N, Ka) product state distributions near the triplet threshold for the reaction H2CO --> H + HCO measured by Rydberg tagging and laser-induced fluorescence

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Reaction dynamics of CN radicals with tetrahydrofuran in liquid solutions.

scientific article published on 12 April 2012

Release of hydrogen molecules from the photodissociation of amorphous solid water and polycrystalline ice at 157 and 193 nm.

scientific article published in July 2008

Resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization probing of H atoms and CH 3 radicals in a hot filament chemical vapour deposition reactor

Scrambled by the Sun?

scientific article published on 01 June 2011

Sensitive Room Temperature Photoluminescence-Based Sensing of H2S with Novel CuO-ZnO Nanorods

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Simplified Monte Carlo simulations of chemical vapour deposition diamond growth

scientific article published on 19 August 2009

Spectroscopic and Modeling Investigations of the Gas-Phase Chemistry and Composition in Microwave Plasma Activated B2H6/Ar/H2Mixtures

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Spectroscopic and modeling investigations of the gas phase chemistry and composition in microwave plasma activated B2H6/CH4/Ar/H2 mixtures

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State-selective photodissociation dynamics of formaldehyde: near threshold studies of the H+HCO product channel

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Striking Isotopologue-Dependent Photodissociation Dynamics of Water Molecules: The Signature of an Accidental Resonance

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

Structural characterisation of CNx thin films deposited by pulsed laser ablation

Studies of Carbon Incorporation on the Diamond {100} Surface during Chemical Vapor Deposition using Density Functional Theory

scientific article published on 07 October 2008

Studies of the ablation plume arising in 193 nm laser irradiation of graphite in vacuum

Sustained frictional instabilities on nanodomed surfaces: stick-slip amplitude coefficient.

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Symmetry matters: photodissociation dynamics of symmetrically versus asymmetrically substituted phenols

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Synthesis and photoluminescence of ultra-thin ZnO nanowire/nanotube arrays formed by hydrothermal growth

Synthesis of micro- or nano-crystalline diamond films on WC-Co substrates with various pretreatments by hot filament chemical vapor deposition

The Role of * Excited States in the Photodissociation of Heteroaromatic Molecules

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The dissociation dynamics of the methyl radical following excitation to the B̃ 2A′1 state

The kinetics of the hydrothermal growth of ZnO nanostructures

The near ultraviolet photodissociation dynamics of 2- and 3-substituted thiophenols: Geometric vs. electronic structure effects.

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The ultraviolet photodissociation of axial and equatorial conformers of 3-pyrroline

scientific article published on November 2010

Theoretical Investigations of the Reactions of N- and O-Containing Species on a C(100):H 2 × 1 Reconstructed Diamond Surface

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Towards Understanding Photodegradation Pathways in Lignins: The Role of Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonding in Excited States

scientific article published on 5 June 2014

Tracking a Paternò-Büchi reaction in real time using transient electronic and vibrational spectroscopies

scientific article published on 28 October 2014

Tracking the ultraviolet-induced photochemistry of thiophenone during and after ultrafast ring opening

scientific article published on 20 July 2020

Transient UV pump-IR probe investigation of heterocyclic ring-opening dynamics in the solution phase: the role played by nσ* states in the photoinduced reactions of thiophenone and furanone

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Translational and internal energy distributions of methyl and hydroxyl radicals produced by 157 nm photodissociation of amorphous solid methanol

scientific article published in December 2009

Tungsten oxide nanorod growth by pulsed laser deposition: influence of substrate and process conditions

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Tuning photochemistry: substituent effects on πσ* state mediated bond fission in thioanisoles

scientific article published on 02 June 2015

Tunnelling under a conical intersection: application to the product vibrational state distributions in the UV photodissociation of phenols.

scientific article published on May 2011

UV Photodissociation of Pyrroles: Symmetry and Substituent Effects

scientific article published on 15 July 2013

UV photodissociation dynamics of iodobenzene: Effects of fluorination

scientific article published on 01 March 2012

UV photodissociation of N-methylpyrrole: The role of 1πσ∗ states in non-hydride heteroaromatic systems

UV photolysis of 4-iodo-, 4-bromo-, and 4-chlorophenol: competition between C-Y (Y = halogen) and O-H bond fission.

scientific article published in April 2013

UV-induced isomerization dynamics of N-methyl-2-pyridone in solution

scientific article published on 17 December 2014

Ultrafast excited-state dynamics of 2,4-dimethylpyrrole

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Ultrathin aligned ZnO nanorod arrays grown by a novel diffusive pulsed laser deposition method

Ultraviolet photochemistry of 2-bromothiophene explored using universal ionization detection and multi-mass velocity-map imaging with a PImMS2 sensor

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Ultraviolet photodissociation dynamics of 2-methyl, 3-furanthiol: tuning pi-conjugation in sulfur substituted heterocycles.

scientific article published in January 2010

Ultraviolet photolysis of H2S and its implications for SH radical production in the interstellar medium

scientific article published on 24 March 2020

Ultraviolet photolysis of adenine: Dissociation via the π1σ* state

scientific article published on 01 March 2007

Unravelling the mechanisms of vibrational relaxation in solution.

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Velocity map imaging studies of the photodissociation of H2O+cations

article by Alan G. Sage et al published 10 April 2010 in Molecular Physics

Velocity map imaging study of BrCl photodissociation at 467 nm: determination of all odd-rank (K = 1 and 3) anisotropy parameters for the Cl(2P(3/2)0) photofragments

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Vibrational energy redistribution in catechol during ultraviolet photolysis

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Vibrationally Quantum-State-Specific Reaction Dynamics of H Atom Abstraction by CN Radical in Solution

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Water Photolysis and Its Contributions to the Hydroxyl Dayglow Emissions in the Atmospheres of Earth and Mars

scientific article published on 13 October 2020

Waveguide-enhanced 2D-IR spectroscopy in the gas phase

scientific article published in September 2013

What [plasma used for growing] diamond can shine like flame?

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