Publications by Mahsa Silatani

Dual Luminescence, Interligand Decay, and Nonradiative Electronic Relaxation of Cyclometalated Iridium Complexes in Solution

Majed Chergui, Olivier Christian Bräm, Andrea Cannizzo, Mahsa Silatani, Enrico Pomarico

Femtosecond broadband photoluminescence studies are presented for Ir(ppy)(3) (Ir1), Ir(ppy)(2)(pic) (Ir2), Ir(ppy)(2)(bpy)(PF6) (Ir3), Ir(ppz)(3) (Ir4), and Ir(ppz)(2)dipy (Ir5) (where ppy = 2-phenylpyridine, pic = picolinate, bpy = 2,2'-bipyridine, ppz = ...

American Chemical Society2016

NO binding kinetics in myoglobin investigated by picosecond Fe K-edge absorption spectroscopy

Majed Chergui, Camelia Borca, Frederico Alves Lima, Marco Eli Reinhard, Mercedes Hannelore Rittmann-Frank, Thomas James Penfold, Jochen Rittmann, Mahsa Silatani

Diatomic ligands in hemoproteins and the way they bind to the active center are central to the protein's function. Using picosecond Fe K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy, we probe the NO-heme recombination kinetics with direct sensitivity to the Fe-NO bi ...

National Academy of Sciences2015

Femtosecond X-ray absorption study of electron localization in photoexcited anatase TiO2

Majed Chergui, Paul Beaud, Camelia Borca, Jochen Rittmann, Mahsa Silatani, Edoardo Baldini, Fabio Giacomo Santomauro, Patric Zimmermann

Transition metal oxides are among the most promising solar materials, whose properties rely on the generation, transport and trapping of charge carriers (electrons and holes). Identifying the latter's dynamics at room temperature requires tools that combin ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Ligand-Centred Fluorescence and Electronic Relaxation Cascade at Vibrational Time Scales in Transition-Metal Complexes

Majed Chergui, Mahsa Silatani, Enrico Pomarico

Using femtosecond-resolved photoluminescence up-conversion, we report the observation of the fluorescence of the high-lying ligand-centered (LC) electronic state upon 266 nm excitation of an iridium complex, Ir(ppy)(3), with a lifetime of 70 +/- 10 fs. It ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Time-resolved X-ray and Optical Studies of Metalloproteins and Iridium Complexes

Mahsa Silatani

A wide variety of physicochemical processes at a molecular level, in particular charge or energy transfer, electronic and vibrational relaxation, are at the origin of biological functionality of proteins and organometallic compounds. The work reported in t ...

EPFL2015