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This approach combines highly efficient sample delivery strategies and a robust signal normalization method with high-transmission Bragg diffraction-based spectrometers at X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) in a damage-free, shot-by-shot mode. These photon-out spectrometers have been optimized for discriminating the metal Mn/Fe Kα fluorescence signals from the overwhelming scattering background present on currently available detectors for XFELs that lack suitable energy discrimination. We quantify the enhanced performance metrics of the spectrometer and discuss its potential applications for acquiring time-resolved XAS spectra of biological samples during their reactions at XFELs.","journal":"The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters","year":2025,"id":539187,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":3,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.958,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2025-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1426360,"name":"Erzsi Szilagyi","orcid":"0009-0006-8585-6167","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":678422,"name":"Hiroki Makita","orcid":"0000-0002-4968-914X","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":240870,"name":"Philipp S. 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