The rise and current status of polaritonic photochemistry and photophysics

R Bhuyan, J Mony, O Kotov, GW Castellanos… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The interaction between molecular electronic transitions and electromagnetic fields can be
enlarged to the point where distinct hybrid light–matter states, polaritons, emerge. The …

Molecular chemistry in cavity strong coupling

K Hirai, JA Hutchison, H Uji-i - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
The coherent exchange of energy between materials and optical fields leads to strong light–
matter interactions and so-called polaritonic states with intriguing properties, halfway …

Theoretical challenges in polaritonic chemistry

J Fregoni, FJ Garcia-Vidal, J Feist - ACS photonics, 2022 - ACS Publications
Polaritonic chemistry exploits strong light–matter coupling between molecules and confined
electromagnetic field modes to enable new chemical reactivities. In systems displaying this …

Thermal disorder prevents the suppression of ultra-fast photochemistry in the strong light-matter coupling regime

A Dutta, V Tiainen, I Sokolovskii, L Duarte… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Strong coupling between molecules and confined light modes of optical cavities to form
polaritons can alter photochemistry, but the origin of this effect remains largely unknown …

Hidden triplet states at hybrid organic–inorganic interfaces

G Bao, R Deng, D Jin, X Liu - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Triplet states have been widely studied in phosphorescent molecules, lanthanide complexes
and triplet–triplet annihilation systems, in which they have a critical role in energy transfer …

Molecular polaritons for chemistry, photonics and quantum technologies

B Xiang, W Xiong - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Molecular polaritons are quasiparticles resulting from the hybridization between molecular
and photonic modes. These composite entities, bearing characteristics inherited from both …

Microcavity-like exciton-polaritons can be the primary photoexcitation in bare organic semiconductors

R Pandya, RYS Chen, Q Gu, J Sung… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Strong-coupling between excitons and confined photonic modes can lead to the formation of
new quasi-particles termed exciton-polaritons which can display a range of interesting …

Are heptazine-based organic light-emitting diode chromophores thermally activated delayed fluorescence or inverted singlet–triplet systems?

AL Sobolewski, W Domcke - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Two chromophores derived from heptazine, HAP-3MF and HAP-3TPA, were synthesized
and tested as emitters in light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) by Adachi and co-workers. Both …

Symmetry‐Induced Singlet‐Triplet Inversions in Non‐Alternant Hydrocarbons

J Terence Blaskovits, MH Garner… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Molecules with inversion of the singlet and triplet excited‐state energies are highly
promising for the development of organic light‐emitting diodes (OLEDs). To date …

Direct and indirect chemiluminescence: reactions, mechanisms and challenges

MA Tzani, DK Gioftsidou, MG Kallitsakis, NV Pliatsios… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Emission of light by matter can occur through a variety of mechanisms. When it results from
an electronically excited state of a species produced by a chemical reaction, it is called …