SUTD: Liu Xiaogang, Richmond Lee, Chi Weijie
Chinese Academy of Science: Wenjuan Liu, Qinglong Qiao, Zhaochao Xu
Pohang University of Science and Technology: Young‐Tae Chang
Vanderbilt University: Matthew John Lang
BioSyM IRG: Danning Gu, Yock Siong Teo

Charge transfer and separation is a fundamental process in the energy conversion that powers life on earth. Besides being used in solar cells and photocatalyst, this process is even in photosynthesis as it enables energy conversion by harvesting light and then transferring and converting into chemical energy.

To view the paper highlights, please go to https://smt.sutd.edu.sg/files/2019/06/TICS-Manuscript-Highlights.pdf
You can find more details at https://www.sutd.edu.sg/Research/Research-News/2019/4/Researchers-discover-new-charge-transfer

(a) Schematic illustration of the twisted intramolecular charge shuttle (TICS) mechanisms; ‘D’ and ‘A’ denote electron-donating and electron-accepting fragments, respectively. (b) Reaction mechanism of a TICS based GSH fluorescent probe, and confocal microscope images of HeLa cells stained with the probe and Hoechst 33342 (a nucleus stain with blue emissions). No red emissions were observed in cells that were pre-treated with 1 mM NMM to remove GSH, while intense red fluorescence was present in cells with GSH. Scale bar = 20 μm.