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Interfacial electron-transfer (ET) reactions underpin the interconversion of electrical and chemical energy. Pioneering experiments showed that the ET rate depends on the Fermi Dirac distribution of the electronic density of states (DOS) of…
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Optical activation of material properties illustrates the potentials held by tuning light-matter interactions with impacts ranging from basic science to technological applications. Here, we demonstrate for the first time that composite…
Dynamic charge transfers, or charge fluxes, generated by anharmonic phonon couplings have previously shown some fundamental connections with the pseudogap phase and other important phases in cuprate superconductors. The anharmonicity here…
The thermal transport across inorganic/organic interfaces attracts interest for both academic and industry due to its widely applications in flexible electronics etc. Here, the interfacial thermal conductance of inorganic/organic interfaces…
Interfacial ultrafast electron migration processes are simulated in finite cluster models of dye-sensitized solar cells within a single active electron approach. Initially, three different donor-acceptor $\pi$-conjugated dyes supported on…