Special Issue in Journal of Chemical Physics

We are planning a special topic in The Journal of Chemical Physics on  “Dynamic Exciton for Material, Biology and Energy Conversion by manipulating locally excited (LE), charge-transfer (CT), and charge-separated (CS) states as well as effects of electrons and spins.”  In light of your expertise and contributions in this area, we invite you to submit an original research article to this special topic. We hope you will join us in contributing to this special topic.

This special topic will cover the broad range of “Dynamic Exciton”. Here, “exciton” is not only redefined as the LE state in molecular donor-acceptor (D-A) systems, but also this terminology is extended further to include the CT and CS states as the umbrella term of the three different states considering the emphasis on hole-electron pair. We aim to manipulate those states through mutual transformation in photochemistry, photophysics, and spin chemistry. Another important aspect of “exciton” is closely related to the “dynamic” aspect of “exciton”. For molecular D-A systems, it is pivotal to understand the mutual interplay between the behaviors of electrons and spins and the motions of atomic nuclei (i.e., vibration, rotation, fluctuation, and transfer) as well as of their collective motions in time-dependent manners. By restructuring the science in photochemistry under “dynamic exciton” and adopting the dynamic effects, it is highly expected to develop versatile photofunctions in electronics, energy, biology, medicine/medical care, and functional materials in the future. Thus, it will also cover applications related to this area, organic photovoltaics, organic-light-emitting diodes, photocatalysts, photoredox catalysts, chemically or physically induced dynamic nuclear and electron polarization, artificial photosynthesis, spin qubits, quantum sensing, magnetoreception and photo-triggered cell manipulation.

As a key researcher in this area, we hope that you will be interested in contributing an article to this special topic of JCP. The submission window opens on June 1, 2024, and remains open until October  31, 2024. Author submission instructions are available on the web at https://jcp.peerx-press.org/cgi-bin/main.plex.

On behalf of all of the Editor-in-Chief and Guest Editors, we very much look forward to receiving your contribution.

With best wishes,

Guest Editors

Hiroshi Imahori, Head, Dynamic Exciton project, Kyoto University, Japan |imahori@scl.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Prashant Kamat, University of Notre Dame, U.S. |pkamat@nd.edu

Hironori Kaji, Kyoto University, Japan |kaji@scl.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Yasuhiro Kobori, Kobe University, Japan |ykobori@kitty.kobe-u.ac.jp

Kiminori Maeda, Saitama University, Japan |kiminorimaeda@mail.saitama-u.ac.jp

Michael R. Wasielewski, Northwestern University, U.S. |m-wasielewski@northwestern.edu

Editor-in-Chief

Tianquan (Tim) Lian, Emory University, U.S. |jcp-edoffice@aip.org