Chiral Molecules and the Electron Spin-How Charge is Transferred in Curved Systems?
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Abstract: "Our studies of the chiral induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect explore the electrons’ spin degree of freedom, in addition to the electrons’ charge. The additional information provides new insight on the mechanism of electron transfer through chiral molecules and demonstrates that several of the assumptions commonly made, when analysing electron transfer data, miss important ingredients of the transfer mechanism.
In my talk, the importance of electron-vibrations and electron-electron interactions will be demonstrated, as well as the role that the molecular polarizability plays in the electron transfer."
Bio: Ron Naaman earned his BSc in 1973 from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and his PhD in 1978 from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University in California, and spent a year in the Department of Chemistry at Harvard University. In 1981, he joined the Weizmann Institute in the Department of Isotope Research (later renamed the Department of Chemical Physics). From 1989-1995, Naaman chaired the Institute’s Chemical Services Unit and from 1995-2000, he headed the Department of Chemical Physics. From 2008-2010, Ron Naaman was the Chair of the Scientific Council at the Institute. He was awarded the Kolthof Prize from the Technion, the excellence in research prize from the Israel Vacuum Society and from the Israel Chemical Society, the Chirality Medal in 2023 and the Israel Chemical Society Gold Medal; and he is a recipient of the Humboldt-Meitner award. He serves as an associate editor for PCCP. Ron Naaman is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and Member of Academia Europaea. He has published more than 350 scientific papers. Currently his research is focused on the chiral induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect that his group discovered.
Location and Address
Chevron 150