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Lower tunnel barriers

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A better understanding of electron transfer through molecules could provide the basis for many technological breakthroughs. Now, the rate of electron transfer has been enhanced in a family of molecules by making them more rigid, and this phenomenon may be explained by the loss of electronic energy to vibrations.

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Figure 1: Charge recombination by electron tunnelling from C60•− to a porphyrin cation through a rigid bridge.

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