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Scheme of a time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography (TR-SFX) experiment on porous coordination network–224(Fe), PCN–224(Fe). The crystals of PCN–224(Fe) are exposed to an intense femtosecond UV laser pulse to trigger a reaction. Ultrafast structural changes of iron porphyrin and zirconium clusters in PCN–224(Fe) were directly visualized using X-ray pulses from the X-ray free-electron laser facility with femtosecond (10−15 second) and angstrom (10−10 meter) spatio-temporal resolution. By measuring the X-ray diffraction patterns produced by the X-ray pulses over time, the molecular structure of PCN–224(Fe) after the reaction was observed.

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