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NCCR MUST at Scientifica 2021Majed Chergui's group has visualized for the first time how electron transfer takes place in water
July 2, 2013 — Majed Chergui's group at EPFL's Laboratory of Ultrafast Spectroscopy (LSU) employed a world-unique setup in their lab to observe the evolution of electron movement with unprecedented time-resolution.
Electron transfer is a process by which an atom donates an electron to another atom. It is the foundation of all chemical reactions, and is of intense research because of the implications it has for chemistry and biology. When two molecules interact, electron transfer takes place in a few quadrillionths (10-15¬) of a second, or femtoseconds (fsec), meaning that studying this event requires very time-sensitive techniques like ultrafast spectroscopy. However, the transfer itself is often influenced by the solution in which the molecules are studied (e.g. water), and this must be taken into account when such experiments are designed. In a recent Nature Communications paper, EPFL scientists have visualized for the first time how electron transfer takes place in one of the most common solvents, water.
Fabrizio Messina, Olivier Bräm, Andrea Cannizzo, Majed Chergui. Real-time observation of the charge transfer to solvent dynamics. Nature Communications, 2013; 4 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3119
Electron transfer is a process by which an atom donates an electron to another atom. It is the foundation of all chemical reactions, and is of intense research because of the implications it has for chemistry and biology. When two molecules interact, electron transfer takes place in a few quadrillionths (10-15¬) of a second, or femtoseconds (fsec), meaning that studying this event requires very time-sensitive techniques like ultrafast spectroscopy. However, the transfer itself is often influenced by the solution in which the molecules are studied (e.g. water), and this must be taken into account when such experiments are designed. In a recent Nature Communications paper, EPFL scientists have visualized for the first time how electron transfer takes place in one of the most common solvents, water.
Fabrizio Messina, Olivier Bräm, Andrea Cannizzo, Majed Chergui. Real-time observation of the charge transfer to solvent dynamics. Nature Communications, 2013; 4 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3119
