Probing the Hofmeister effect with ultrafast core-hole spectroscopy

Zhong Yin1, Ivan Rajkovic, Katharina Kubicek

  • 1Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry , Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.

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