Delocalized excitons in natural light-harvesting complexes

SJ Jang, B Mennucci - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2018 - APS
Natural organisms such as photosynthetic bacteria, algae, and plants employ complex
molecular machinery to convert solar energy into biochemical fuel. An important common …

Direct imaging of Frenkel exciton transport by ultrafast microscopy

T Zhu, Y Wan, L Huang - Accounts of chemical research, 2017 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Long-range transport of Frenkel excitons is crucial for achieving efficient
molecular-based solar energy harvesting. Understanding of exciton transport mechanisms is …

Direct imaging of exciton transport in tubular porphyrin aggregates by ultrafast microscopy

Y Wan, A Stradomska, J Knoester… - Journal of the American …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Long-range exciton transport is a key challenge in achieving efficient solar energy
harvesting in both organic solar cells and photosynthetic systems. Self-assembled molecular …

Design principles for two-dimensional molecular aggregates using Kasha's model: tunable photophysics in near and short-wave infrared

AP Deshmukh, D Koppel, C Chuang… - The Journal of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Technologies which utilize near-infrared (NIR)(700–1000 nm) and short-wave infrared
(1000–2000 nm) electromagnetic radiation have applications in deep-tissue imaging …

Structural and quantum chemical analysis of exciton coupling in homo-and heteroaggregate stacks of merocyanines

D Bialas, A Zitzler-Kunkel, E Kirchner, D Schmidt… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Exciton coupling is of fundamental importance and determines functional properties of
organic dyes in (opto-) electronic and photovoltaic devices. Here we show that strong …

Transport of spin-entangled triplet excitons generated by singlet fission

Y Wan, GP Wiederrecht, RD Schaller… - The Journal of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Singlet fission provides a promising route for overcoming the Shockley–Queisser limit in
solar cells using organic materials. Despite singlet fission dynamics having been extensively …

Enhancement of exciton transport in porphyrin aggregate nanostructures by controlling the hierarchical self-assembly

T Kim, S Ham, SH Lee, Y Hong, D Kim - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Exciton transport in meso-tetra (4-sulfonatophenyl) porphyrin (TPPS) J-aggregates was
directly imaged using the emission profile analysis method with confocal fluorescence …

Structure and principles of self-assembly of giant “sea urchin” type sulfonatophenyl porphine aggregates

M Pleckaitis, F Habach, L Kontenis, G Steinbach… - Nano Research, 2022 - Springer
Principles of molecular self-assembly into giant hierarchical structures of hundreds of
micrometers in size are studied in aggregates of meso-tetra (4-sulfonatophenyl) porphine …

A bubble‐assisted approach for patterning nanoscale molecular aggregates

F Min, P Zhou, Z Huang, Y Qiao, C Yu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We demonstrate a new approach to pattern functional organic molecules with a template of
foams, and achieve a resolution of sub 100 nm. The bubble‐assisted assembly (BAA) …

Quantum diffusion on molecular tubes: Universal scaling of the 1D to 2D transition

C Chuang, CK Lee, JM Moix, J Knoester, J Cao - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
The transport properties of disordered systems are known to depend critically on
dimensionality. We study the diffusion coefficient of a quantum particle confined to a lattice …