Virtual Issue on Ultrafast Charge Separation in Energy Research

Abstract

Ultrafast charge separation is important for a variety of applications, such as molecular electronics, solar energy conversion, and optical switching. The development of new ultrafast techniques to study charge separation has seen an enormous rise in the number of research articles on this topic in recent years. However, in spite of this progress, questions still remain about what controls the rates of charge transfer and separation in different systems. This Virtual Issue (VI) highlights recent publications from The Journal of Physical Chemistry C that describe research on ultrafast charge separation. The systems studied include organic molecular junctions, polymeric semiconductors, bulk heterojunctions, nanoparticles, and quantum dots.