Development of renewable energy technologies has been a significant area of research
amongst scientists with the aim of attaining a sustainable world society. Solar thermal fuels …

The photoisomerization of azobenzene has been known for almost 75 years but only
recently has this process been widely applied to biological systems. The central challenge of …

Photochromic switches that are able to transmit information in a quick fashion have attracted
a growing interest within materials science during the last few decades. Although very fast …

This review analyzes the inherent scientific challenges of realizing the potential of storing
solar energy by photochemical generation of high-energy metastable compounds whose …

Light-induced chemical processes are ubiquitous in nature and have widespread
technological applications. For example, photoisomerization can allow a drug with a photo …

We review state-of-the-art nonadiabatic molecular dynamics methods, with focus on the
comparison of two general strategies: the “direct” one, in which the potential energy surfaces …

Azobenzene is one of the most ubiquitous photoswitches in photochemistry and a
prototypical model for photoisomerizing systems. Despite this, its wavelength-dependent …

We combine sub-20 fs transient absorption spectroscopy with state-of-the-art computations
to study the ultrafast photoinduced dynamics of trans-azobenzene (AB). We are able to …

We have simulated the photodynamics of azobenzene by means of the Surface Hopping
method. We have considered both the trans→ cis and the cis→ trans processes, caused by …

Azobenzene and its derivatives are among the most important organic photonic materials,
with their photo-induced trans–cis isomerization leading to applications ranging from …