Coordination Funds

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Reinhard Dörner
• Subject Area: Physical Chemistry of Molecules, Liquids and Interfaces, Biophysical Chemistry ; Optics, Quantum Optics and Physics of Atoms, Molecules and Plasmas
• Term: from 2012 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 203306641

Z-ProjektChemical reactions and modifications of molecular structure are driven by energy. Often, this energy exists initially in the form of electronic excitations. The relaxation of electronically excited states is therefore a key question in chemistry and molecular biology. A number of relaxation mechanisms are now clear, some of them even after decades of research. Examples are transitions between different electronic states at conical intersections, the tunnelling of electrons between functional groups in large molecules and energy transport via excitons. The topic of this Research Unit is the investigation of a novel, recently discovered mechanism for the transformation of electronic energy created by excitation or ionization with UV radiation and far beyond, or energetic particles. We intend to form a strongly integrated Research Unit consisting both of the groups who have predicted and experimentally demonstrated this effect and groups who have a particular expertise which is necessary to elucidate its full relevance for chemistry, chemical physics and biochemistry.

• DFG Programme: Research Units
• Subproject of: FOR 1789: Intermolecular and Interatomic Coulombic Decay