Molecular Energy Transfer

Dear Colleagues,

The concept of electronic energy transfer (EET) in natural and artificial systems is very well established and is often used as an analytical tool for determining separation distances or properties of the surrounding medium. Despite its maturity, the field is constantly changing to reflect new theoretical ideas, to engulf new molecular materials, and to offer new solutions for complex analytical problems. Indeed, EET has been studied at the single-molecule level and within the context of in-situ organic light-emitting devices; other EET studies encompass an incredibly rich variety of molecular architectures. The field benefits from access to highly sophisticated instrumentation with temporal and spatial resolution and from contemporary quantum chemical protocols. Information about EET crosses many conventional boundaries separating biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, and medical science. This Special Issue seeks to highlight recent developments in both fundamental and technological applications of EET in artificial and natural systems, and solicits contributions from the following key areas:

• Electronic energy transfer in dynamic systems;
• Successes and limitations of Förster theory;
• Biological and/or biomedical systems, especially protein folding;
• EET in complex systems, including gels, clusters, solids, quantum dots, and across interfaces;
• Improved theoretical models;
• EET in devices, including organic solar cells and conducting polymers;
• EET in competition with other light-induced processes;
• Analytical applications of EET.

We welcome papers on fundamental research, as well as contributions with a more applied bias, to effectively capture and represent the current state-of-the-art, encourage interactions, and stimulate new developments in the field of molecular electronic energy transfer.

Prof. Dr. Anthony Harriman
Guest Editor

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• Förster theory
• electron exchange
• molecular architectures
• dendrimers
• conjugated polymers
• biological systems
• applications
• devices