Communication: Delayed asymmetric Coulomb fission of molecular clusters: Application of a dielectric liquid-drop model

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Wu, Guohua ^a   Chen, Xiaojing ^a   Stace, Anthony J ^a   Linse, Per ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE SEPARATIONS; DICATIONS; DIELECTRIC SPHERES; ELECTROSTATIC INTERACTION ENERGY; FISSION PROCESS; KINETIC ENERGY RELEASE; KINETIC MODELS; MOLECULAR CLUSTERS; TIME-SCALES;

DIELECTRIC LIQUIDS; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY;

KINETIC ENERGY;

AMMONIA;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; KINETICS; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

AMMONIA; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 79551637793     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3544211     Document Type: Article

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