Non-adiabatic excited-state molecular dynamics: Theory and applications for modeling photophysics in extended molecular materials

TR Nelson, AJ White, JA Bjorgaard, AE Sifain… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Optically active molecular materials, such as organic conjugated polymers and biological
systems, are characterized by strong coupling between electronic and vibrational degrees of …

Coherent two-dimensional and broadband electronic spectroscopies

S Biswas, JW Kim, X Zhang, GD Scholes - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Over the past few decades, coherent broadband spectroscopy has been widely used to
improve our understanding of ultrafast processes (eg, photoinduced electron transfer, proton …

Discovery and characterization of an acridine radical photoreductant

IA MacKenzie, L Wang, NPR Onuska, OF Williams… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Photoinduced electron transfer (PET) is a phenomenon whereby the absorption of light by a
chemical species provides an energetic driving force for an electron-transfer reaction,,–. This …

Accurate Computation of the Absorption Spectrum of Chlorophyll a with Pair Natural Orbital Coupled Cluster Methods

A Sirohiwal, R Berraud-Pache, F Neese… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The ability to accurately compute low-energy excited states of chlorophylls is critically
important for understanding the vital roles they play in light harvesting, energy transfer, and …

Ultrafast laser spectroscopy uncovers mechanisms of light energy conversion in photosynthesis and sustainable energy materials

D Zigmantas, T Polívka, P Persson… - Chemical Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The invention of the laser in 1960 gave us the ruby laser, which generally produced chaotic
pulses of light. Six years later, in 1966, a concept called passive mode-locking applied to …

Ultrafast anisotropy decay reveals structure and energy transfer in supramolecular aggregates

V Erić, JL Castro, X Li, L Dsouza… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Chlorosomes from green bacteria perform the most efficient light capture and energy
transfer, as observed among natural light-harvesting antennae. Hence, their unique …

S pai NN: equivariant message passing for excited-state nonadiabatic molecular dynamics

S Mausenberger, C Müller, A Tkatchenko… - Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Excited-state molecular dynamics simulations are crucial for understanding processes like
photosynthesis, vision, and radiation damage. However, the computational complexity of …

Half-broadband two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy with active noise reduction

G Bressan, IA Heisler, GM Greetham, A Edmeades… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy (2DES) provides detailed insight into coherent
ultrafast molecular dynamics in the condensed phase. Here we report a referenced …

The development and applications of multidimensional biomolecular spectroscopy illustrated by photosynthetic light harvesting

GR Fleming, GD Scholes - Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics, 2024 - cambridge.org
The parallel and synergistic developments of atomic resolution structural information, new
spectroscopic methods, their underpinning formalism, and the application of sophisticated …

A Computational Study of the Electronic Energy and Charge Transfer Rates and Pathways in the Tetraphenyldibenzoperiflanthene/Fullerene Interfacial Dyad

A Schubert, S Bhandari, E Geva… - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The electronic transition rates and pathways underlying interfacial charge separation in
tetraphenyldibenzoperiflanthene: fullerene (DBP: C70) blends are investigated …