Quantum chemical studies of light harvesting

C Curutchet, B Mennucci - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
The design of optimal light-harvesting (supra) molecular systems and materials is one of the
most challenging frontiers of science. Theoretical methods and computational models play a …

Exciton–vibrational coupling in the dynamics and spectroscopy of Frenkel excitons in molecular aggregates

M Schröter, SD Ivanov, J Schulze, SP Polyutov, Y Yan… - Physics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
The influence of exciton–vibrational coupling on the optical and transport properties of
molecular aggregates is an old problem that gained renewed interest in recent years. On the …

Excitation energy transfer in organic materials: from fundamentals to optoelectronic devices

F Laquai, YS Park, JJ Kim… - Macromolecular rapid …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
In this review, we discuss investigations of electronic excitation energy transfer in
conjugated organic materials at the bulk and single molecule level and applications of …

Length dependence for intramolecular energy transfer in three-and four-color donor− spacer− acceptor arrays

A Harriman, LJ Mallon, KJ Elliot, A Haefele… - Journal of the …, 2009 - ACS Publications
A series of donor− spacer− acceptor triads has been synthesized and fully characterized.
Both donor and acceptor units are built from boron dipyrromethene (BODIPY) dyes but they …

Electronic and vibrational coherences in resonance energy transfer along MEH-PPV chains at room temperature

E Collini, GD Scholes - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2009 - ACS Publications
In this work we report a study of the role of coherence dynamics in the intermediate coupling
regime of electronic energy transfer (EET). Starting from the idea that in the intermediate …

Panchromatic Light‐Capturing Bis‐styryl BODIPY‐Perylenediimide Donor‐Acceptor Constructs: Occurrence of Sequential Energy Transfer Followed by Electron …

CV Ileperuma, J Garcés‐Garcés, S Shao… - … A European Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Two wide‐band‐capturing donor‐acceptor conjugates featuring bis‐styrylBODIPY and
perylenediimide (PDI) have been newly synthesized, and the occurrence of ultrafast …

Understanding ground-and excited-state properties of perylene tetracarboxylic acid bisimide crystals by means of quantum chemical computations

HM Zhao, J Pfister, V Settels, M Renz… - Journal of the …, 2009 - ACS Publications
Quantum chemical protocols explaining the crystal structures and the visible light absorption
properties of 3, 4: 9, 10-perylene tetracarboxylic acid bisimide (PBI) derivates are proposed …

Singlet exciton diffusion in organic crystals based on marcus transfer rates

V Stehr, RF Fink, B Engels, J Pflaum… - Journal of Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Exciton diffusion is a critical step for energy conversion in optoelectronic devices. This
spawns the desire for theoretical approaches that allow for fast but reliable determinations of …

Excitation energy transfer in donor–bridge–acceptor systems

B Albinsson, J Mårtensson - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
This perspective will focus on the mechanistic aspects of singlet and triplet excitation energy
transfer. Well defined donor–bridge–acceptor systems specifically designed for investigating …

Benchmarking aspects of ab initio fragment models for accurate excimer potential energy surfaces

B Barcza, ÁB Szirmai, A Tajti, JF Stanton… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
While Coupled-Cluster methods have been proven to provide an accurate description of
excited electronic states, the scaling of the computational costs with the system size limits …