Color polymorphism in organic crystals

BA Nogueira, C Castiglioni, R Fausto - Communications Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Color polymorphism is an interesting property of chemical systems which present crystal
polymorphs of different colors. It is a rare phenomenon, with only a few examples reported in …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Development of the fragment molecular orbital method for calculating nonlocal excitations in large molecular systems

T Fujita, Y Mochizuki - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2018 - ACS Publications
We developed the fragment-based method for calculating nonlocal excitations in large
molecular systems. This method is based on the multilayer fragment molecular orbital …

Quantum mechanical analysis of excitation energy transfer couplings in photosystem II

K Saito, K Mitsuhashi, H Tamura, H Ishikita - Biophysical Journal, 2023 - cell.com
We evaluated excitation energy transfer (EET) coupling (J) between all pairs of chlorophylls
(Chls) and pheophytins (Pheos) in the protein environment of photosystem II based on the …

Molecular Mechanisms behind Circular Dichroism Spectral Variations between Channelrhodopsin and Heliorhodopsin Dimers

KJ Fujimoto, YA Tsuzuki, K Inoue… - The Journal of Physical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Channelrhodopsin (ChR) and heliorhodopsin (HeR) are microbial rhodopsins with similar
structures but different circular dichroism (CD) spectra: ChR shows biphasic negative and …

Rank-one basis made from matrix-product states for a low-rank approximation of molecular aggregates

S Nishio, Y Kurashige - The Journal of chemical physics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
An efficient low-rank approximation to complete active space (CAS) wavefunctions for
molecular aggregates is presented. Molecular aggregates usually involve two different …

Electronic coupling calculations with transition charges, dipoles, and quadrupoles derived from electrostatic potential fitting

KJ Fujimoto - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
A transition charge, dipole, and quadrupole from electrostatic potential (TrESP-CDQ)
method for electronic coupling calculations is proposed. The TrESP method is based on the …

Coherent Dynamics of Mixed Frenkel and Charge-Transfer Excitons in Dinaphtho[2,3-b:2′3′-f]thieno[3,2-b]-thiophene Thin Films: The Importance of Hole …

T Fujita, S Atahan-Evrenk, NPD Sawaya… - The Journal of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Charge-transfer states in organic semiconductors play crucial roles in processes such as
singlet fission and exciton dissociation at donor/acceptor interfaces. Recently, a time …