Twisted intramolecular charge transfer (TICT) and twists beyond TICT: from mechanisms to rational designs of bright and sensitive fluorophores

C Wang, W Chi, Q Qiao, D Tan, Z Xu… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The twisted intramolecular charge transfer (TICT) mechanism has guided the development
of numerous bright and sensitive fluorophores. This review briefly overviews the history of …

Manipulating matter by strong coupling to vacuum fields

FJ Garcia-Vidal, C Ciuti, TW Ebbesen - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND One of the most important phenomena in cavity quantum electrodynamics
(cQED) is the so-called strong coupling regime, which appears when the interaction …

Chemistry under vibrational strong coupling

K Nagarajan, A Thomas… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Over the past decade, the possibility of manipulating chemistry and material properties using
hybrid light–matter states has stimulated considerable interest. Hybrid light–matter states …

Understanding polaritonic chemistry from ab initio quantum electrodynamics

M Ruggenthaler, D Sidler, A Rubio - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
In this review, we present the theoretical foundations and first-principles frameworks to
describe quantum matter within quantum electrodynamics (QED) in the low-energy regime …

Optical metasurfaces for energy conversion

E Cortés, FJ Wendisch, L Sortino, A Mancini… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanostructured surfaces with designed optical functionalities, such as metasurfaces, allow
efficient harvesting of light at the nanoscale, enhancing light–matter interactions for a wide …

Hybrid light–matter states in a molecular and material science perspective

TW Ebbesen - Accounts of chemical research, 2016 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The notion that light and matter states can be hybridized the way s and p
orbitals are mixed is a concept that is not familiar to most chemists and material scientists …

Plasmonic metal–semiconductor photocatalysts and photoelectrochemical cells: a review

N Wu - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The incorporation of plasmonic metals into semiconductors is a promising route to improve
the performance of photocatalysts and photoelectrochemical cells. This article summarizes …

Recent advances in resonant waveguide gratings

G Quaranta, G Basset, OJF Martin… - Laser & Photonics …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Resonant waveguide gratings (RWGs), also known as guided mode resonant (GMR)
gratings or waveguide‐mode resonant gratings, are dielectric structures where these …

Polaritonic chemistry with organic molecules

J Feist, J Galego, FJ Garcia-Vidal - ACS Photonics, 2018 - ACS Publications
We present an overview of the general concepts of polaritonic chemistry with organic
molecules, ie, the manipulation of chemical structure that can be achieved through strong …

Sub-picosecond collapse of molecular polaritons to pure molecular transition in plasmonic photoswitch-nanoantennas

J Kuttruff, M Romanelli, E Pedrueza-Villalmanzo… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Molecular polaritons are hybrid light-matter states that emerge when a molecular transition
strongly interacts with photons in a resonator. At optical frequencies, this interaction unlocks …