Quantum Photoelectrochemistry - Mastering Novel Photofunctionality in Molecular Systems and Complex Materials

Project funded by Swedish Research Council (Project grant), grant 2021-05313_VR. Participating organisations named by the source: Lund University. Funded amount: SEK 3,520,000, as stated by the source. Runs 2022-01-01 to 2025-12-31. Keywords: Naturvetenskap, Natural Sciences, Kemi, Chemical Sciences, Fysikalisk kemi, Physical Chemistry. Source: OpenAIRE Graph, from the funder's project data (collected by OpenAIRE on 2025-12-06); national funding data, not CORDIS. Abstract given by the source: This project concerns the mastering of innovative photofunctionality in a range of complex materials and molecular systems. Photofunctionality includes light-harvesting and solar energy conversion processes of fundamental importance for photochemical applications towards molecular photovoltaics and photocatalysis. Additionally, this also covers luminescence and emission processes in for example light-emitting devices, optical probes of materials properties and excited state processes, as well as phototherapies. This proposal builds on recent discoveries of promising excited state properties in earth-abundant molecular materials with unconventional electronic characters that include both ligand-to-metal charge-transfer states in iron complexes, and metal-centered states in cobalt complexes that challenge a long-standing hegemony of metal-to-ligand charge-transfer processes in inorganic photochemistry. We now propose to use an integrated combination of computational chemistry and time-resolved spectroscopy to develop the fundamental understanding of key processes including light-harvesting, excited state dynamics, charge transfer, excitation energy transfer, and luminescence properties in such new materials. Contributing to the development of fundamentally new photofunctionality in a wide range of applications that include both molecular photovoltaics as well as photochemical and photocatalytic conversion systems is a key ambition.

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AI-assisted summary: The project "Quantum Photoelectrochemistry" is funded by the Swedish Research Council with a grant of SEK 3,520,000, running from January 1, 2022, to December 31, 2025, at Lund University. It focuses on innovative photofunctionality in complex materials and molecular systems. Suggested technology pillar: enabling. Generated by AI from the public source text; it may contain errors and the original source is authoritative.