Electrons are the workhorses of solar energy conversion. Conversion of the energy of light to
electricity in photovoltaics, or to energy-rich molecules (solar fuel) through photocatalytic …

Climate change and the consumption of non-renewable resources are considered as the
greatest problems facing humankind. Because of this, photocatalysis research has been …

Metal nanoparticles are excellent light absorbers. The absorption processes create highly
excited electron–hole pairs, and recently there has been interest in harnessing these hot …

Semiconductors show dramatic quantization effects when charge carriers (electrons and
holes) are confined by potential barriers to small regions of space where the dimensions of …

The field of nanocatalysis (in which nanoparticles are used to catalyze reactions) has
undergone an exponential growth during the past decade. Two types of studies have been …

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) describes the quantum dynamics of
interacting electronic many-body systems formally exactly and in a practical and efficient …

Transition metal complexes with low lying excited states are finding increasing use as
photosensitizers. Major work horses are those derived from polypyridine complexes and …

The critical role that dopants play in semiconductor devices has stimulated research on the
properties and the potential applications of semiconductor nanocrystals, or colloidal …

A multilayer (ML) formulation of the multiconfiguration time-dependent Hartree (MCTDH)
theory is presented. In this new approach, the single-particle (SP) functions in the original …

The science describing semiconductor− liquid interfaces is highly interdisciplinary, broad in
scope, interesting, and of importance to various emerging technologies. We present a …