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 …

Ultrafast dynamics of carotenoid excited states− from solution to natural and artificial systems

T Polívka, V Sundström - Chemical reviews, 2004 - ACS Publications
Carotenoids are, along with chlorophylls, the most abundant pigments found in nature. They
are present in most organisms including humans but can be synthesized only by plants and …

How proteins trigger excitation energy transfer in the FMO complex of green sulfur bacteria

J Adolphs, T Renger - Biophysical journal, 2006 - cell.com
A simple electrostatic method for the calculation of optical transition energies of pigments in
protein environments is presented and applied to the Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) …

Ultrafast charge transfer coupled with lattice phonons in two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks

TW Kim, S Jun, Y Ha, RK Yadav, A Kumar… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) have emerged as a promising light-harvesting module
for artificial photosynthesis and photovoltaics. For efficient generation of free charge carriers …

Understanding the energy transfer function of LHCII, the major light-harvesting complex of green plants

H van Amerongen, R van Grondelle - The journal of physical …, 2001 - ACS Publications
Since the crystal structure of the major light-harvesting complex II (LHCII) of green plants
was obtained by Kühlbrandt, Wang and Fujiyoshi (Nature 199 4, 367, 614− 621), this …

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 …

Theory of excitation energy transfer: from structure to function

T Renger - Photosynthesis research, 2009 - Springer
This mini-review summarizes our current theoretical knowledge about excitation energy
transfer in pigment–protein complexes. The challenge for theory lies in the complexity of …

Carotenoid to chlorophyll energy transfer in the peridinin–chlorophyll-a–protein complex involves an intramolecular charge transfer state

D Zigmantas, RG Hiller… - Proceedings of the …, 2002 - National Acad Sciences
Carotenoids are, along with chlorophylls, crucial pigments involved in light-harvesting
processes in photosynthetic organisms. Details of carotenoid to chlorophyll energy transfer …

Refractive index dependence of the Förster resonance excitation transfer rate

RS Knox, H van Amerongen - The journal of physical chemistry B, 2002 - ACS Publications
The rate or yield of resonance electronic excitation transfer is an important tool of biological
research, used to estimate distances between chromophores. Besides the interchromophore …

Energy transfer in photosystem I of cyanobacteria Synechococcus elongatus: model study with structure-based semi-empirical Hamiltonian and experimental spectral …

M Yang, A Damjanović, HM Vaswani, GR Fleming - Biophysical journal, 2003 - cell.com
We model the energy transfer and trapping kinetics in PSI. Rather than simply applying
Förster theory, we develop a new approach to self-consistently describe energy transfer in a …