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Some like it hot

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Excitation of organic donor–acceptor systems with high-energy light can produce hot charge-transfer states that are delocalized across the heterojunction and readily dissociate. Two studies now reveal the dynamics of this process and pave the way towards unravelling the details of the molecular landscape that favours fast photocarrier generation.

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Figure 1: Schematic representation of the ultrafast optical probes used by Jailaubekov and colleagues2.
Figure 2: Energy-level diagram describing the mechanism for ultrafast charge generation proposed by Grancini and colleagues3.

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  1. Carlos Silva is in the Department of Physics and the Regroupement québécois sur les matériaux de pointe, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succursale centre-ville, Montréal (Québec) H3C 3J7, Canada,

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Silva, C. Some like it hot. Nature Mater 12, 5–6 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3523

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