Real time investigation of light harvesting processes in redox switching oligonuclear charge transfer metal complexes (B06)

• Subject Area: Physical Chemistry of Solids and Surfaces, Material Characterisation
• Term: since 2013
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 217133147

This project aims to control the efficiencies of highly preorganized, elastically coupled (hetero)oligometallic complexes for light harvesting and energy storage in excited electronic and spin states. To that end, intrinsic excited state electronic structure and dynamics are probed in real time via ultrafast spectroscopic methods at the femtosecond timescale, and in close collaboration with theory, to unravel the correlations of spin and charge dynamics upon light excitation that triggers spin crossover (SCO) or charge transfer (CT) processes.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1073: Atomic Scale Control of Energy Conversion
• Applicant Institution: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Franc Meyer; Professor Dr. Dirk Schwarzer; Professorin Dr. Simone Techert, until 6/2021