Abstract
When a one-dimensional (1D) semiconductor nanostructure is immersed in a sluggish polar solvent, fluctuations of the medium may result in the appearance of localized electronic levels inside the band gap. An excess charge carrier can occupy such a level and undergo self-localization into a large-radius adiabatic polaron surrounded by a self-consistent medium polarization pattern. Within an appropriately adapted framework of the Marcus theory, we explore the description and qualitative picture of thermally activated electron transfer involving solvation-induced polaroniclike states by considering transfer between small and 1D species as well as between two 1D species. Illustrative calculations are performed for tubular geometries with possible applications to carbon nanotube systems.
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