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 …

Computational approaches for organic semiconductors: from chemical and physical understanding to predicting new materials

V Bhat, CP Callaway, C Risko - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
While a complete understanding of organic semiconductor (OSC) design principles remains
elusive, computational methods─ ranging from techniques based in classical and quantum …

[HTML][HTML] Interference between Coulombic and CT-mediated couplings in molecular aggregates: H-to J-aggregate transformation in perylene-based π-stacks

NJ Hestand, FC Spano - The Journal of chemical physics, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
The spectroscopic differences between J and H-aggregates are traditionally attributed to the
spatial dependence of the Coulombic coupling, as originally proposed by Kasha. However …

Protein matrix control of reaction center excitation in photosystem II

A Sirohiwal, F Neese, DA Pantazis - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Photosystem II (PSII) is a multisubunit pigment–protein complex that uses light-induced
charge separation to power oxygenic photosynthesis. Its reaction center chromophores …

Exciton analysis of many-body wave functions: Bridging the gap between the quasiparticle and molecular orbital pictures

SA Bäppler, F Plasser, M Wormit, A Dreuw - Physical Review A, 2014 - APS
Exciton sizes and electron-hole binding energies, which are central properties of excited
states in extended systems and crucial to the design of modern electronic devices, are …

Assessment of approximate coupled-cluster and algebraic-diagrammatic-construction methods for ground-and excited-state reaction paths and the conical …

D Tuna, D Lefrancois, Ł Wolański… - Journal of Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
As a minimal model of the chromophore of rhodopsin proteins, the penta-2, 4-dieniminium
cation (PSB3) poses a challenging test system for the assessment of electronic-structure …

Ultrafast spectroscopy of photoactive molecular systems from first principles: Where we stand today and where we are going

I Conti, G Cerullo, A Nenov… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Computational spectroscopy is becoming a mandatory tool for the interpretation of the
complex, and often congested, spectral maps delivered by modern non-linear multi-pulse …

Experimental Benchmark Data and Systematic Evaluation of Two a Posteriori, Polarizable-Continuum Corrections for Vertical Excitation Energies in Solution

JM Mewes, ZQ You, M Wormit, T Kriesche… - The Journal of …, 2015 - ACS Publications
We report the implementation and evaluation of a perturbative, density-based correction
scheme for vertical excitation energies calculated in the framework of a polarizable …

DELFI: a computer oracle for recommending density functionals for excited states calculations

D Avagliano, M Skreta, S Arellano-Rubach… - Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Density functional theory (DFT) is the workhorse of computational quantum chemistry. One
of its main limitations is that choosing the right functional is a non-trivial task left for human …

P3CPenT as an organic hole transport layer for perovskite solar cells

G Pindolia, S Shinde, PK Jha - International Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Perovskite solar cells (PSC) are the third‐generation solar cells, which have a low
production cost and have achieved similar laboratory scale efficiencies as the first …