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 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 …

NEXMD software package for nonadiabatic excited state molecular dynamics simulations

W Malone, B Nebgen, A White, Y Zhang… - Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We present a versatile new code released for open community use, the nonadiabatic excited
state molecular dynamics (NEXMD) package. This software aims to simulate nonadiabatic …

Nexmd v2. 0 software package for nonadiabatic excited state molecular dynamics simulations

VM Freixas, W Malone, X Li, H Song… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We present NEXMD version 2.0, the second release of the NEXMD (Nonadiabatic EXcited-
state Molecular Dynamics) software package. Across a variety of new features, NEXMD v2. 0 …

Physicochemical, antioxidant properties of carotenoids and its optoelectronic and interaction studies with chlorophyll pigments

R Srivastava - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The physicochemical and antioxidant properties of seven carotenoids: antheraxanthin, β-
carotene, neoxanthin, peridinin, violaxanthin, xanthrophyll and zeaxanthin were studied by …

Vibronic structure of photosynthetic pigments probed by polarized two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy and ab initio calculations

Y Song, A Schubert, E Maret, RK Burdick… - Chemical …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Bacteriochlorophyll a (Bchl a) and chlorophyll a (Chl a) play important roles as light
absorbers in photosynthetic antennae and participate in the initial charge-separation steps …

Full visible range two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy with high time resolution

D Timmer, DC Lünemann, S Riese, AD Sio… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy (2DES) is a powerful method to study coherent
and incoherent interactions and dynamics in complex quantum systems by correlating …

Electronic delocalization, vibrational dynamics, and energy transfer in organic chromophores

T Nelson, S Fernandez-Alberti… - The journal of …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The efficiency of materials developed for solar energy and technological applications
depends on the interplay between molecular architecture and light-induced electronic …

[HTML][HTML] Harnessing high-energy MLCT excited states for artificial photosynthesis

A Cotic, I Ramírez-Wierzbicki, A Cadranel - Coordination Chemistry …, 2024 - Elsevier
Important fractions of the energy absorbed in natural and artificial photosynthetic schemes
are dissipated via fast internal conversion processes. In contrast, chromophores that …

Impact of structure, coupling scheme, and state of interest on the energy transfer in CP29

S Petry, JC Tremblay, JP Götze - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The Qy and Bx excitation energy transfer (EET) in the minor light-harvesting complex CP29
(LHCII B4. 1) antenna complex of Pisum sativum was characterized using a computational …