Sumana L. Raj

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory — United States

Materials Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research(8), High-pressure geophysics and materials(4), Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications(4), Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies(3), Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques(3)

Publications21 total

Ultrafast Population and Structural Dynamics of a Ni-Bipyridine Photoredox Catalyst Reveal a Significant Deactivation Pathway
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters·2026Open Access
Tracking Electron, Proton, and Solvent Motion in Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer with Ultrafast X-rays
arXiv (Cornell University)·2025Open Access
Excited State Covalency, Dynamics, and Photochemistry of Square Planar Ni-Thiolate Complexes Revealed by Ultrafast X-ray Absorption
Journal of the American Chemical Society·2025· 1 cited
Multiconfigurational Electronic Structure of Nickel Cross-Coupling Catalysts Revealed by X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters·2024· 5 citedOpen Access
Time-Resolved X-ray Emission Spectroscopy and Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering Spectroscopy of Laser Irradiated Carbon
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Time-Resolved X-ray Emission Spectroscopy and Synthetic High-Spin Model Complexes Resolve Ambiguities in Excited-State Assignments of Transition-Metal Chromophores: A Case Study of Fe-Amido Complexes
Journal of the American Chemical Society·2024· 21 citedOpen Access
The Liquid Jet Endstation for Hard X-ray Scattering and Spectroscopy at the Linac Coherent Light Source
Molecules·2024· 11 citedOpen Access
Characterization of Deformational Isomerization Potential and Interconversion Dynamics with Ultrafast X-ray Solution Scattering
Journal of the American Chemical Society·2024· 7 citedOpen Access
Characterization of deformational isomerization potential and interconversion dynamics with ultrafast x-ray solution scattering
2024Open Access
Site-specific electronic structure of covalently linked bimetallic dyads from nitrogen K-edge x-ray absorption spectroscopy
The Journal of Chemical Physics·2024· 6 citedOpen Access
<b>Mechanistic role of Cu co-catalysts in unassisted photocatalytic CO</b><sub><strong>2</strong></sub><b> reduction using p-GaN/Al</b><sub><strong>2</strong></sub><b>O</b><sub><strong>3</strong></sub><b>/Au/Cu hybrid catalysts</b>
Figshare·2023Open Access
Saturable Absorption of Free-Electron Laser Radiation by Graphite near the Carbon K-Edge
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters·2022· 9 citedOpen Access
Optically Induced Anisotropy in Time-Resolved Scattering: Imaging Molecular-Scale Structure and Dynamics in Disordered Media with Experiment and Theory
Physical Review Letters·2022Open Access
Saturable absorption of free-electron laser radiation by graphite near the carbon K-edge
arXiv (Cornell University)·2021· 2 citedOpen Access
Angstrom-Resolved Interfacial Structure in Buried Organic-Inorganic Junctions
Physical Review Letters·2021· 20 citedOpen Access
Free Electron Laser Measurement of Liquid Carbon Reflectivity in the Extreme Ultraviolet
Photonics·2020· 3 citedOpen Access
The liquid state of carbon
Chemical Physics Letters·2020· 18 cited
Early time dynamics of laser-ablated silicon using ultrafast grazing incidence X-ray scattering
Chemical Physics Letters·2019· 5 citedOpen Access
Investigating the Liquid State of Carbon
eScholarship (California Digital Library)·2019Open Access
Two-photon absorption of soft X-ray free electron laser radiation by graphite near the carbon K-absorption edge
Chemical Physics Letters·2018· 11 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Richard J. Saykally(9), Craig P. Schwartz(8), Natalia E. Powers‐Riggs(8), Walter S. Drisdell(7), Matthieu Chollet(7), Tim B. van Driel(7), Tod A. Pascal(6), Laura Foglia(6), Riccardo Mincigrucci(6), Emiliano Principi(6), Amy A. Cordones(6), Kelly J. Gaffney(6), C.J. Hull(5), Dimosthenis Sokaras(5), Royce K. Lam(4), Alberto Simoncig(4), C. Masciovecchio(4), Dennis Nordlund(4), Roberto Alonso‐Mori(4), Leland B. Gee(4)