Development of renewable energy technologies has been a significant area of research
amongst scientists with the aim of attaining a sustainable world society. Solar thermal fuels …

The geometries, UV− vis absorption spectra, and resonance Raman (RR) intensities have
been determined for the S1 and S3 excited states of rhodamine 6G (R6G) in vacuum and …

The photoisomerization of the push− pull substituted azo dye Disperse Red 1 is studied
using femtosecond time-resolved absorption spectroscopy and other spectroscopic and …

The absorption and resonance Raman spectra have been investigated for the first excited
state of the julolidinemalononitrile push-pull chromophore in cyclohexane, dichloromethane …

The ultrafast photoisomerization of a push− pull substituted azobenzene (4-nitro-4 '-
(dimethylamino) azobenzene, NA) is studied by means of femtosecond fluorescence and …

Photoresponsive gold nanoparticle networks were prepared by functionalizing them with
azobenzene derivatives. A network can be formed when a linker molecule constituting the …

The protonation effect on the vibrational and electronic spectra of 4-aminoazobenzene and
4-(dimethylamino) azobenzene was investigated by resonance Raman spectroscopy, and …

Ultrafast torsional dynamics plays an important role in the photoinduced excited state
dynamics. Tetraphenylethylene (TPE), a model system for the molecular motor, executes …

Solvation plays a critical role in various physicochemical and biological processes. Here, the
rate of intersystem crossing (ISC) of benzophenone from its S1 (nπ*) state to its triplet …

Ultrafast Raman loss spectroscopy (URLS) enables one to obtain the vibrational structural
information of molecular systems including fluorescent materials. URLS, a nonlinear process …