Within the context of an electron dynamic (time-dependent) perspective and a voltage driving force acting to redistribute electrons between metallic and addressable molecular states, we define here the associated electron admittance and conductance. We specifically present a mesoscopic approach to resolving the electron transfer rate associated with the electrochemistry of a redox active film t...

The electron transfer (ET) dynamics from core/multi-shell (CdSe/CdS(3ML)ZnCdS(2ML)ZnS(2ML)) quantum dots (QDs) to adsorbed Fluorescein (F27) molecules have been studied by single particle spectroscopy to probe the relationship between single QD interfacial electron transfer and blinking dynamics. Electron transfer from the QD to F27 and the subsequent recombination were directly observed by ens...

Dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) employing a dimer porphyrin, which was synthesised with two porphyrin units connected without conjugation, have shown that both porphyrin components can contribute to photocurrent generation, that is, more than 50 % internal quantum efficiency. In addition, the open-circuit voltage (Voc) of the DSSCs was higher than that of DSSCs using monomer porphyrins. In t...

The lifetime risk of acquiring HIV infection in many rural as well as urban areas of southern Africa is currently as high as two-in-three. For women, much of this risk still accrues rapidly at young ages despite high levels of knowledge about HIV/AIDS. Thus, programmes that are more participatory and address underlying structural and community-level factors appear to be essential. We use cross-...

Fluid dynamics is one of the cornerstones modern physics and has recently found applications in transport electrons solids. In most solids electron dominated by extrinsic factors, such as sample geometry scattering from impurities. However hydrodynamic regime Coulomb interactions transform motion independent particles to collective a viscous `electron fluid'. The fluid viscosity an intrinsic pr...

Extended oligo-cyclopentadithiophene dyes show higher electron recombination resistance and a longer lifetime. With unusually thin TiO 2 of 0.96 μm, high photocurrent density is achieved for ssDSSCs.

Time-resolved Kerr reflectivity of two-dimensional electron gases in II-VI semiconductors provides a direct measure of electron spin precession and relaxation over a temperature range from 4 to 300 kelvin. The introduction of n-type dopants increases the electronic spin lifetimes several orders of magnitude relative to insulating counterparts, a trend that is also observed in doped bulk semicon...

The coordinate and energy distributions of the electron beam density at the Advanced Light Source have been obtained from measurements of the beam lifetime at various storage-ring apertures in the horizontal and vertical planes. It is shown that these distributions have a Gaussian core extended approximately up to five rms beam sizes. Beyond this point the electron density is defined by the ele...