Journal article

Charge migration and charge transfer in molecular systems

  • Wörner, Hans Jakob Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
  • Arrell, Christopher A. Laboratory of Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), EPFL,Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Banerji, Natalie Department of Chemistry, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
  • Cannizzo, Andrea Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern, Switzerland
  • Chergui, Majed Laboratory of Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), EPFL,Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Das, Akshaya K. Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Switzerland
  • Hamm, Peter Department of Chemistry, University of Zürich, Switzerland
  • Keller, Ursula Department of Physics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
  • Kraus, Peter M. Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Switzerland - Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, USA
  • Liberatore, Elisa Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Lopez-Tarifa, Pablo Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Lucchini, Matteo Department of Physics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland - Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  • Meuwly, Markus Department of Chemistry, University of Zürich, Switzerland
  • Milne, Chris SwissFEL, Paul-Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland
  • Moser, Jacques-E. Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Rothlisberger, Ursula Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Smolentsev, Grigory Paul-Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland
  • Teuscher, Joël Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Bokhoven, Jeroen A. van Paul-Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland - Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
  • Wenger, Oliver Department of Chemistry, University of Zürich, Switzerland
Show more…
    01.11.2017
Published in:
  • Structural Dynamics. - 2017, vol. 4, no. 6, p. 061508
English The transfer of charge at the molecular level plays a fundamental role in many areas of chemistry, physics, biology and materials science. Today, more than 60 years after the seminal work of R. A. Marcus, charge transfer is still a very active field of research. An important recent impetus comes from the ability to resolve ever faster temporal events, down to the attosecond time scale. Such a high temporal resolution now offers the possibility to unravel the most elementary quantum dynamics of both electrons and nuclei that participate in the complex process of charge transfer. This review covers recent research that addresses the following questions. Can we reconstruct the migration of charge across a molecule on the atomic length and electronic time scales? Can we use strong laser fields to control charge migration? Can we temporally resolve and understand intramolecular charge transfer in dissociative ionization of small molecules, in transition-metal complexes and in conjugated polymers? Can we tailor molecular systems towards specific charge- transfer processes? What are the time scales of the elementary steps of charge transfer in liquids and nanoparticles? Important new insights into each of these topics, obtained from state-of-the-art ultrafast spectroscopy and/or theoretical methods, are summarized in this review.
Faculty
Faculté des sciences et de médecine
Department
Département de Chimie
Language
  • English
Classification
Chemistry
License
License undefined
Identifiers
Persistent URL
https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/306415
Statistics

Document views: 17 File downloads:
  • ban_cmc.pdf: 32