Utilization of renewable energies for catalytically generating value-added chemicals is
highly desirable in this era of rising energy demands and climate change impacts. Artificial …

The transfer of charge at the molecular level plays a fundamental role in many areas of
chemistry, physics, biology and materials science. Today, more than 60 years after the …

The ultrafast light-activated electrocyclic ring-opening reaction of 1, 3-cyclohexadiene is a
fundamental prototype of photochemical pericyclic reactions. Generally, these reactions are …

Near-infrared (NIR)-to-visible (vis) photon upconversion (UC) is useful for various
applications; however, it remains challenging in triplet–triplet annihilation-based UC, mainly …

Disentangling the strong interplay between electronic and nuclear degrees of freedom is
essential to achieve a full understanding of excited state processes during ultrafast …

Compositionally versatile, nonstoichiometric, mixed ionic–electronic conducting metal
oxides of the form A n+ 1B n O3 n+ 1 (n= 1→∞; A= rare-earth-/alkaline-earth-metal cation; …

Featured Application Femtosecond X-ray Experiments on photoexcited chemical systems
deliver a portfolio of new observables including electronic, spin and nuclear dynamics. This …

The rapid development of photo (redox) catalysis within the last decades is remarkable to
the extent that the utilization of light‐driven processes in organic chemistry has become a …

Zinc porphyrin solar cell dyes with donor− π–acceptor architectures combine light absorber
(π), electron-donor, and electron-acceptor moieties inside a single molecule with atomic …

The excited state properties of transition metal complexes have become a central focus of
research owing to a wide range of possible applications that seek to exploit their …