New article by undergraduate student Rachel Morin

Former UMBC physics major Rachel Morin (currently a Ph.D. student at the Catholic University of America) is the first author of a recently published article based on research she did as an undergraduate researcher in Dr. Pelton’s research group. In this paper, published as part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry 125th-anniversary virtual special issue, Morin, Pelton, and their collaborators at NIST and Argonne National Laboratory report measurements of electron transfer from single rod-shaped semiconductor nanocrystals to single molecules adsorbed on the nanorod surfaces. They showed that the measured distribution of electron-transfer rates can be used to probe the electron wavefunctions involved in electron transfer from the nanorods.

R. Morin, G. W. Bryant, E. V. Shevchenko, Y. Sha, and M. Pelton, “Single-molecule measurements probe wavefunctions involved in electron transfer from CdSe/CdS core/shell nanorods,” J. Phys. Chem. C.125, 21246 (2021).

URL: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c06581