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 …

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 …

Fluorescent cyclophanes and their applications

I Roy, AHG David, PJ Das, JP David… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
With the serendipitous discovery of crown ethers by Pedersen more than half a century ago
and the subsequent introduction of host–guest chemistry and supramolecular chemistry by …

Biological applications of supramolecular assemblies designed for excitation energy transfer

HQ Peng, LY Niu, YZ Chen, LZ Wu, CH Tung… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Absorption of light by a molecule (donor, D) generates an excited state, which may
subsequently transfer the excitation to another chromophore (acceptor, A) in the vicinity …

From macrocycles to quantum rings: Does aromaticity have a size limit?

M Jirásek, HL Anderson, MD Peeks - Accounts of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The ring currents of aromatic and antiaromatic molecules are remarkable
emergent phenomena. A ring current is a quantum-mechanical feature of the whole system …

Template-directed synthesis of molecular nanorings and cages

PS Bols, HL Anderson - Accounts of chemical research, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conspectus This Account is about templates as construction tools: molecules for making
molecules. A template organizes the reactants and provides information to promote …

Efficient multiexciton state generation in charge-transfer-coupled perylene bisimide dimers via structural control

Y Hong, J Kim, W Kim, C Kaufmann, H Kim… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The singlet fission (SF) process is generally defined as the conversion of one singlet exciton
(S1) into two triplet excitons (2· T1), which has the potential to overcome thermalization …

Selective synthesis of conjugated chiral macrocycles: sidewall segments of (−)/(+)‐(12, 4) carbon nanotubes with strong circularly polarized luminescence

J Wang, G Zhuang, M Chen, D Lu, Z Li… - Angewandte …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have unusual physical properties that are valuable for
nanotechnology and electronics, but the chemical synthesis of chirality‐and diameter …

[HTML][HTML] Towards efficient near-infrared fluorescent organic light-emitting diodes

A Minotto, I Bulut, AG Rapidis, G Carnicella… - Light: Science & …, 2021 - nature.com
The energy gap law (E G-law) and aggregation quenching are the main limitations to
overcome in the design of near-infrared (NIR) organic emitters. Here, we achieve …

Controlling supramolecular polymerization through multicomponent self‐assembly

P Besenius - Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The self‐assembly into supramolecular polymers is a process driven by reversible non‐
covalent interactions between monomers, and gives access to materials applications …