Theory of Electron Transfer in Complex Systems

This research grant is the most recent of a continuous series of grants from the Department of Energy supporting our theoretical efforts to understand various electron transfer processes. In part, my research on this topic has focused on distributions of electric fields, as it is these fields that drive electron transfer. Additional focus has been concerned with kinetics, as the rates of electron transfer are central to the utility of electron transfer. Finally, we have found that the theoretical tools we originally developed to treat electron transfer can be suitably applied to understand the workings of molecular motors