Dynamics of excitons in conjugated molecules and organic semiconductor systems

OP Dimitriev - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
The exciton, an excited electron–hole pair bound by Coulomb attraction, plays a key role in
photophysics of organic molecules and drives practically important phenomena such as …

Expanded theory of H-and J-molecular aggregates: the effects of vibronic coupling and intermolecular charge transfer

NJ Hestand, FC Spano - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
The electronic excited states of molecular aggregates and their photophysical signatures
have long fascinated spectroscopists and theoreticians alike since the advent of Frenkel …

Using coherence to enhance function in chemical and biophysical systems

GD Scholes, GR Fleming, LX Chen, A Aspuru-Guzik… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Coherence phenomena arise from interference, or the addition, of wave-like amplitudes with
fixed phase differences. Although coherence has been shown to yield transformative ways …

Light harvesting for organic photovoltaics

GJ Hedley, A Ruseckas, IDW Samuel - Chemical Reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
The field of organic photovoltaics has developed rapidly over the last 2 decades, and small
solar cells with power conversion efficiencies of 13% have been demonstrated. Light …

Long-range exciton transport in conjugated polymer nanofibers prepared by seeded growth

XH Jin, MB Price, JR Finnegan, CE Boott, JM Richter… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Easily processed materials with the ability to transport excitons over length scales of more
than 100 nanometers are highly desirable for a range of light-harvesting and optoelectronic …

H-and J-aggregate behavior in polymeric semiconductors

FC Spano, C Silva - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Aggregates of conjugated polymers exhibit two classes of fundamental electronic
interactions: those occurring within a given chain and those occurring between chains. The …

Long-range energy transport in single supramolecular nanofibres at room temperature

AT Haedler, K Kreger, A Issac, B Wittmann, M Kivala… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Efficient transport of excitation energy over long distances is a key process in light-
harvesting systems, as well as in molecular electronics,,. However, in synthetic disordered …

Tensor product methods and entanglement optimization for ab initio quantum chemistry

S Szalay, M Pfeffer, V Murg, G Barcza… - … Journal of Quantum …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The treatment of high‐dimensional problems such as the Schrödinger equation can be
approached by concepts of tensor product approximation. We present general techniques …

Coherence in Chemistry: Foundations and Frontiers

JD Schultz, JL Yuly, EA Arsenault, K Parker… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Coherence refers to correlations in waves. Because matter has a wave-particle nature, it is
unsurprising that coherence has deep connections with the most contemporary issues in …

Building one molecule from a reservoir of two atoms

LR Liu, JD Hood, Y Yu, JT Zhang, NR Hutzler… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Chemical reactions typically proceed via stochastic encounters between reactants. Going
beyond this paradigm, we combined exactly two atoms in a single, controlled reaction. The …