Light absorption results in a momentarily weaker chemical bond
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Light absorption frequently promotes molecules to excited states that undergo charge transfer or structural reorganization, resulting in the temporary weakening of specific chemical or hydrogen bonds.
Evidence for · 5
The birth and evolution of solvated electrons in the water.
2023 · cited by 0
The study observes that photoionization and charge separation weaken the hydrogen bond network in the hydration shells of solvated electrons.
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Solution-phase vertical growth of aligned NiCo2O4 nanosheet arrays on Au nanosheets with weakened oxygen-hydrogen bonds for photocatalytic oxygen evolution.
2020 · cited by 0
Density functional theory and transient absorption spectroscopy demonstrate that heterojunction formation weakens the H-O bond of water upon photoinduced charge transfer.
Research shows that hole trapping at iodide sites in mixed halide perovskites weakens the Pb-I bond and leads to halide expulsion.
A DFT/TDDFT study on the excited-state hydrogen bonding dynamics of 6-aminocoumarin in water solution.
2013 · cited by 0
Investigation into 6-aminocoumarin demonstrates that photoinduced charge transfer significantly weakens specific hydrogen bonds in excited states.
The effect of moisture on the structures and properties of lead halide perovskites: a first-principles theoretical investigation.
2016 · cited by 0
First-principles calculations reveal that electronic excitation in lead halide perovskites weakens metal-halide bonds by up to 20% in the excited state.