Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Theoretical chemistry at UW

Today I am giving a talk to the theory group in Chemistry at University of Washington.

I am looking forward to meeting Oleg Prezdho. I am currently learning a lot from reading a very nice review article he wrote with W.R. Duncan on modelling the ultrafast electron transfer (femtoseconds) from organic molecules to titanium dioxide. This is a key process in Gratzel solar cells.

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