Real-time observation of the charge transfer to solvent dynamics

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Messina, Fabrizio ^a   Bräm, Olivier ^a   Cannizzo, Andrea ^a,b   Chergui, Majed ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODIDE; SOLVENT; WATER;

ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; IODIDE; REAL TIME; SOLVENT;

ANISOTROPY; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY; EXCITATION; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHYSICAL PHASE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 84880104339     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3119     Document Type: Article

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