Electronic couplings and electrostatic interactions behind the light absorption of retinal proteins

KJ Fujimoto - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The photo-functional chromophore retinal exhibits a wide variety of optical absorption
properties depending on its intermolecular interactions with surrounding proteins and other …

Structure-based modeling of energy transfer in photosynthesis

T Renger, MEA Madjet, M Schmidt am Busch… - Photosynthesis …, 2013 - Springer
We provide a minimal model for a structure-based simulation of excitation energy transfer in
pigment–protein complexes (PPCs). In our treatment, the PPC is assembled from its building …

Understanding photosynthetic light-harvesting: a bottom up theoretical approach

T Renger, F Müh - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
We discuss a bottom up approach for modeling photosynthetic light-harvesting. Methods are
reviewed for a full structure-based parameterization of the Hamiltonian of pigment–protein …

Nonplanar Nanographene: A Hydrocarbon Hole‐Transporting Material That Competes with Triarylamines

Y Morinaka, H Ito, KJ Fujimoto, T Yanai… - Angewandte …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Hole‐transporting materials (HTMs) are essential for optoelectronic devices, such as organic
light‐emitting diodes (OLEDs), dye‐sensitized solar cells, and perovskite solar cells …

Atomistic non-adiabatic dynamics of the LH2 complex with a GPU-accelerated ab initio exciton model

A Sisto, C Stross, MW van der Kamp… - Physical Chemistry …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
We recently outlined an efficient multi-tiered parallel ab initio excitonic framework that
utilizes time dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) to calculate ground and excited …

Revealing the contest between triplet–triplet exchange and triplet–triplet energy transfer coupling in correlated triplet pair states in singlet fission

V Abraham, NJ Mayhall - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Understanding the separation of the correlated triplet pair state 1 (TT) intermediate is critical
for leveraging singlet fission to improve solar cell efficiency. This separation mechanism is …

The seamless connection of local and collective excited states in subsystem time-dependent density functional theory

J Tölle, J Neugebauer - The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
The theoretical understanding of photoinduced processes in multichromophoric systems
requires, as an essential ingredient, the possibility of accurately describing their …

Fragment-based excited-state calculations using the GW approximation and the Bethe–Salpeter equation

T Fujita, Y Noguchi - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2021 - ACS Publications
Herein, we present a fragment-based approach for calculating the charged and neutral
excited states in molecular systems, based on the many-body Green's function method …

Extending multi-layer energy-based fragment method for excited-state calculations of large covalently bonded fragment systems

WK Chen, WH Fang, G Cui - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Recently, we developed a low-scaling Multi-Layer Energy-Based Fragment (MLEBF)
method for accurate excited-state calculations and nonadiabatic dynamics simulations of …

Long-range corrected fragment molecular orbital density functional tight-binding method for excited states in large molecular systems

R Einsele, J Hoche, R Mitrić - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Herein, we present a new method to efficiently calculate electronically excited states in large
molecular assemblies, consisting of hundreds of molecules. For this purpose, we combine …