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20092023
most citedLaboratory formation of fullerenes from PAHs: Top-down interstellar chemistry

183 citations · 909 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

astro-ph.GA2023★ 115 cited

PDRs4All IV. An embarrassment of riches: Aromatic infrared bands in the Orion Bar

Ryan Chown, Ameek Sidhu, Els Peeters +136

(Abridged) Mid-infrared observations of photodissociation regions (PDRs) are dominated by strong emission features called aromatic infrared bands (AIBs). The most prominent AIBs ar…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 88 cited

PDRs4All: A JWST Early Release Science Program on radiative feedback from massive stars

Olivier Berné, Émilie Habart, Els Peeters +134

Massive stars disrupt their natal molecular cloud material through radiative and mechanical feedback processes. These processes have profound effects on the evolution of interstell…

physics.atm-clus2020★ 1 cited

Laboratory study of the formation of fullerene (from smaller to larger, C to C)/anthracene cluster cations in the gas phase

Deping Zhang, Yuanyuan Yang, Xiaoyi Hu +1

The formation and evolution mechanism of fullerenes in the planetary nebula or in the interstellar medium are still not understood. Here we present the study on the cluster formati…

physics.atm-clus2019★ 6 cited

Laboratory formation and photo-chemistry of fullerene/anthracene cluster cations

Junfeng Zhen, Weiwei Zhang, YuanYuan Yang +2

Besides buckminsterfullerene (C60), other fullerenes and their derivatives may also reside in space. In this work, we study the formation and photo-dissociation processes of astron…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 41 cited

The aromatic Universe

A. Candian, J. Zhen, A. G. G. M. Tielens

The rich molecular structures of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons -- essentially planar flakes of fused benzene rings -- and their fullerene cousins are revealed through their vibr…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 37 cited

Laboratory photo-chemistry of covalently bonded fluorene clusters: observation of an interesting PAH bowl-forming mechanism

Weiwei Zhang, Yubing Si, Junfeng Zhen +3

The fullerene C, one of the largest molecules identified in the interstellar medium (ISM), has been proposed to form top-down through the photo-chemical processing of large…