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NCCR MUST: A New Swiss Research Priority in Molecular Ultrafast Science and Technology

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The National Center of Competence in Research 'MUST - Molecular Ultrafast Science and Technology' (http://www.nccr-must.ch/) will provide new theoretical as well as experimental methodologies to study ultrafast dynamic processes in matter with atomic spatial resolution. Such multidisciplinary efforts will help members of MUST to understand and solve problems related to energy and fuel production through light harvesting or to gain new insights into the functioning of large molecular complexes and strongly correlated materials. Moreover, they will teach us about underlying principles, such as electron transfer dynamics, signaling with large molecules, or the interplay between electronic, magnetic and nuclear degrees of freedom in strongly correlated matter. The NCCR MUST consists of 15 Swiss research teams, several junior principal investigators and associated groups; MUST started operation in Juli 2010 and held its inauguration meeting in Januar 2011 with about 120 participants. In the current issue of CHIMIA all science teams of the NCCR MUST provide a glimpse into some of their research efforts, of course with emphasis on topics related to MUST.

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Contents	290	Table of Contents
Editorial	292	Prof. Dr. Thomas Feurer, Prof. Dr. Ursula Keller
	294	Attoscience at ETH Zurich: Shining New Light on Old Questions in Quantum Mechanics U. Keller
	299	High-Harmonic Spectroscopy: From Femtosecond to Attosecond Molecular Dynamics H. J. Wörner
	303	Ultrafast X-ray Absorption Studies of the Structural Dynamics of Molecular and Biological Systems in Solution C. J. Milne, R. M. Van der Veen, V.-T. Pham, F. A. Lima, H. Rittmann-Frank, M. Reinhard, F. van Mourik, S. Karlsson, T. J. Penfold, M. Chergui*
	308	Ultrafast Structural Dynamics in Condensed Matter P. Beaud*, S. L. Johnson, E. Vorobeva, C. J. Milne, A. Caviezel, S. O. Mariager, R. A. De Souza, U. Staub, G. Ingold
	313	Ultrafast Time-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy at University of Zurich P. Hamm*
	316	Near Field Enhancement for THz Switching and THz Nonlinear Spectroscopy Applications H. Merbold, F. Brunner, A. Cannizzo, T. Feurer*
	320	Towards High-power Single-cycle THz Laser for Initiating High-field-sensitive Phenomena C. Ruchert, F. Ardana, A. Trisorio, C. Vicario, C. P. Hauri*
	323	Can Energetic Terahertz Pulses Initiate Surface Catalytic Reactions on the Picosecond Time Scale? B. D. Patterson*, J. Sa, A. Ichsanow, C. P. Hauri, C. Vicario, C. Ruchert, I. Czekaj, R. Gehrig, H. C. Sigg, J. A. van Bokhoven, B. Pedrini, R. Abela
	326	Computational Spectroscopy and Reaction Dynamics P.-A. Cazade, S. Lutz, M. W. Lee, M. Meuwly*
	330	Mixed Quantum Mechanical/Molecular Mechanical (QM/MM) Simulations of Adiabatic and Nonadiabatic Ultrafast Phenomena B. F. E. Curchod, P. Campomanes, A. Laktionov, M. Neri, T. J. Penfold, S. Vanni, I. Tavernelli, U. Rothlisberger*
	334	Accelerating Calculations of Ultrafast Time-Resolved Electronic Spectra with Efficient Quantum Dynamics Methods M. Wehrle, M. Šulc, J. Vaníček*
	339	Dispersed fs-FWM for Investigations of Low Frequency Vibrations of Transient Species in Combustion G. Knopp*, P. P. Radi, T. Gerber
	342	Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy to Probe Ultrafast Charge Transfer and Electron Dynamics in Solid Surface Systems and at Metal-Molecule Interfaces L. Castiglioni*, M. Greif, D. Leuenberger, S. Roth, J. Osterwalder, M. Hengsberger
	346	Discriminating Biomolecules with Coherent Control Strategies A. Rondi, D. Kiselev, S. Machado, J. Extermann, S. Weber, L. Bonacina, J.-P. Wolf*, J. Roslund, M. Roth, H. Rabitz
	350	Photoinduced Electron Transfer Reactions: From the Elucidation of Old Problems in Bulk Solutions Towards the Exploration of Interfaces M. Fedoseeva, J. Grilj, O. Kel, M. Koch, R. Letrun, V. Markovic, I. Petkova, S. Richert, A. Rosspeintner, P. S. Sherin, D. Villamaina, B. Lang, E. Vauthey*
	353	Photoinduced Interfacial Electron Transfer and Lateral Charge Transport in Molecular Donor–Acceptor Photovoltaic Systems A. Punzi, J. C. Brauer, A. Marchioro, E. Ghadiri, J. de Jonghe, J.-E. Moser*
	356	Artificial Photosynthesis at Soft Interfaces D. Schaming, I. Hatay, F. Cortez, A. Olaya, M. A. Méndez, P. Y. Ge, H. Deng, P. Voyame, Z. Nazemi, H. Girault*
SCG/SSC/SCS	361	Lighting-up Cancerous Cells and Tissues with Lanthanide Luminescence
Diverses	362	«La chimie, ça reste une science expérimentale»
SCG/SSC/SCS	366	International Year of Chemistry 2011
FH-HES	370	Membrane-Supported Liquid-Liquid Extraction
SCG/SSC/SCS	373	Ausschreibung der SCG-Preise 2012 / Appel à candidatures pour les Prix SSC 2012
	375	Generalversammlung der SCG / Assemblée générale de la SSC
	377	Division of Analytical Chemistry: Weiterbildung Analytik
Information	378	Honors, Conferences/Workshops/Symposia, Lectures
Diverses	380	EuCheMS Newsletter
CHIMIA-Report	384	Products, Services and News from Companies
SCG/SSC/SCS	386	Kaffeerahmdeckeli zum Internationalen Jahr der Chemie 2011

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CHIMIA, Vol. 65, Issue 05/2011: NCCR MUST

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