Photovoltaic concepts inspired by coherence effects in photosynthetic systems

JL Brédas, EH Sargent, GD Scholes - Nature materials, 2017 - nature.com
The past decade has seen rapid advances in our understanding of how coherent and
vibronic phenomena in biological photosynthetic systems aid in the efficient transport of …

Femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy

DR Dietze, RA Mathies - ChemPhysChem, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy (FSRS) is an ultrafast nonlinear optical
technique that provides vibrational structural information with high temporal (sub‐50 fs) …

Ab initio nonadiabatic dynamics with coupled trajectories: A rigorous approach to quantum (de) coherence

SK Min, F Agostini, I Tavernelli… - The journal of physical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We report the first nonadiabatic molecular dynamics study based on the exact factorization
of the electron–nuclear wave function. Our approach (a coupled-trajectory mixed quantum …

Exciton delocalization in indolenine squaraine aggregates templated by DNA holliday junction scaffolds

OA Mass, CK Wilson, SK Roy, MS Barclay… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Exciton delocalization plays a prominent role in the photophysics of molecular aggregates,
ultimately governing their particular function or application. Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a …

Characterizing mode anharmonicity and Huang–Rhys factors using models of femtosecond coherence spectra

MS Barclay, JS Huff, RD Pensack… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Femtosecond laser pulses readily produce coherent quantum beats in transient–absorption
spectra. These oscillatory signals often arise from molecular vibrations and therefore may …

Capturing structural snapshots during photochemical reactions with ultrafast Raman spectroscopy: From materials transformation to biosensor responses

C Fang, L Tang, BG Oscar, C Chen - The journal of physical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Chemistry studies the composition, structure, properties, and transformation of matter. A
mechanistic understanding of the pertinent processes is required to translate fundamental …

Slow intramolecular vibrational relaxation leads to long-lived excited-state wavepackets

SR Rather, GD Scholes - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2016 - ACS Publications
Broadband optical pump and compressed white light continuum probe were used to
measure the transient excited-state absorption, ground-state bleach, and stimulated …

Chirped Laser Pulse Control of Vibronic Wavepackets and Energy Transfer in Phycocyanin 645

CP Oberg, LC Spangler, DF Coker… - The Journal of Physical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Photosynthetic organisms use light-harvesting complexes to increase the spectrum of light
that they absorb from solar photons. Recent ultrafast spectroscopic studies have revealed …

Map** structural dynamics of proteins with femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy

C Fang, L Tang - Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The structure–function relationships of biomolecules have captured the interest and
imagination of the scientific community and general public since the field of structural …

Experimental detection of branching at a conical intersection in a highly fluorescent molecule

J Brazard, LA Bizimana, T Gellen… - The Journal of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Conical intersections are molecular configurations at which adiabatic potential-energy
surfaces touch. They are predicted to be ubiquitous, yet condensed-phase experiments …