Solvated electrons in the complex media: a review

Abstract

Solvated electrons are a type of weakly-bound electrons which are confined in solvents or surrounding media and are different from the atomic core and valence electrons. Their main characters are that the electron(s) are solvated by solvent molecules or micro-surrounding media, and are novel entities and special quantum dot systems. They have quite unique structures, properties and dynamics, and exhibit the promising applications. In this review, we summarized the serial research progress about the solvated electrons in the complex media by our group, including the structures, states, properties, time-evolution dynamics of their character parameters in the complicated media, a series of chemical reactions and physical process associated with solvated electrons, and functionality of solvated electron systems, discussed their characteristics and regularities, and also presented the outlook for the further development of the solvated electrons.