Femtosecond nonlinear spectroscopy is the main tool for the time-resolved detection of
photophysical and photochemical processes. Since most systems of chemical interest are …

Over the last few decades, conical intersections (CoIns) have grown from theoretical
curiosities into common mechanistic features of photochemical reactions, whose function is …

Femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy (FSRS) is an ultrafast nonlinear optical
technique that provides vibrational structural information with high temporal (sub‐50 fs) …

Crossings of electronic potential energy surfaces in nuclear configuration space, known as
conical intersections, determine the rates and outcomes of a large class of photochemical …

Carotenoids are among the most important organic compounds present in Nature and play
several essential roles in biology. Their configuration is responsible for their specific …

Coherent multidimensional electronic spectroscopy can be employed to unravel various
channels in molecular chemical reactions. This approach is thus not limited to analysis of …

Carotenoids are essential light-harvesting pigments in natural photosynthesis. They absorb
in the blue–green region of the solar spectrum and transfer the absorbed energy to (bacterio …

One major challenge of future sustainable photochemistry is to replace precious and rare
transition metals in applications such as energy conversion or electroluminescence by earth …

Single-molecule optoelectronic devices promise a potential solution for miniaturization and
functionalization of silicon-based microelectronic circuits in the future. For decades of its fast …

The motion of atoms is at the heart of any chemical or structural transformation in molecules
and materials. Upon activation of this motion by an external source, several (usually many) …