Electronic-vibrational spectroscopy: A new probe for structure and function

该项目旨在解决超快光谱学的一个主要挑战：识别和量化复杂光化学系统中的竞争反应途径。超快光谱学提供了光化学反应激发态过程的信息，然而，解开具有竞争并行过程的非均相系统仍然很困难。多维电子振动光谱，敏感的电子动力学和分子结构，有望克服这一障碍。这种新的细节水平将深刻提高我们对复杂系统中能量和化学转化的理解，并将揭示优化下一代光能收集，传导和发射材料的设计目标。

This project aims to solve a major challenge in ultrafast spectroscopy: to identify and quantify competing reaction pathways in complex photochemical systems. Ultrafast Spectroscopy provides information on excited-state processes of photochemical reactions, however, unravelling heterogeneous systems with competing parallel processes remains difficult. Multidimensional electronic-vibrational spectroscopy, sensitive to electronic dynamics and molecular structure, is expected to overcome this barrier. This new level of detail will profoundly enhance our understanding of energy and chemical conversion in complex systems and will reveal design targets for optimising next-generation light-energy harvesting, conducting, and emitting materials.