Front Cover: Efficient Hot‐Electron Transfer under Modal Strong Coupling Conditions with Sacrificial Electron Donors (ChemNanoMat 8/2019)

Electron-phonon coupling and electron heat capacity of metals under conditions of strong electron-phonon nonequilibrium

The dependence of the strength of the electron-phonon coupling and the electron heat capacity on the electron temperature is investigated for eight representative metals, Al, Cu, Ag, Au, Ni, Pt, W, and Ti, for the conditions of strong electron-phonon nonequilibrium. These conditions are characteristic of metal targets subjected to energetic ion bombardment or short-pulse laser irradiation. Comp...

Quantum effects in electron transfer reactions with strong electronic coupling

Strong Electron-Phonon Coupling in Yttrium under Pressure

Linear response methods are applied to identify the increase in electron-phonon coupling in elemental yttrium that is responsible for its high superconducting critical temperature Tc, which reaches nearly 20 K at 115 GPa. While the evolution of the band structure and density of states is smooth and seemingly modest, there is strong increase in the 4d content of the occupied conduction states un...

Charge Transfer Interactions in the Generation of Singlet Oxygen O2(∆g) by Strong Electron Donors

The quenching rate constant of the triplet state by molecular oxygen and the efficiency of singlet oxygen generation have been measured for 12 amines in cyclohexane and benzene. For the best electron donors, the average rate constant for quenching by energy transfer is 6.0 × 109 M-1 s-1. For the same compounds, the rate constant of quenching via enchancement of internal conversion is 1.2 × 1010...

Control of optical properties of hybrid materials with chirped femtosecond laser pulses under strong coupling conditions.

The interaction of chirped femtosecond laser pulses with hybrid materials--materials comprised of plasmon sustaining structures and resonant molecules--is scrutinized using a self-consistent model of coupled Maxwell-Bloch equations. The optical properties of such systems are examined with the example of periodic sinusoidal gratings. It is shown that under strong coupling conditions one can cont...