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A study on carrier-collection efficiency in various organic photovoltaic systems now reveals that ultrafast relaxation of photoexcitations within the manifold of charge-transfer states does not impede mobile charge carrier generation.

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  1. Department of Physics, Daniel Moses is at the Center for Polymers and Organic Solids, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93111, USA,

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Moses, D. Efficient relaxation. Nature Mater 13, 4–5 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3842

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