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Titov E. The Role of Double Excitations in Exciton Dynamics of Multiazobenzenes: Trisazobenzenophane as a Test Case. J Phys Chem Lett 2024; 15:7482-7488. [PMID: 39011968 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c01608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/17/2024]
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Molecular exciton dynamics underlie energy and charge transfer processes in organic multichromophoric systems. A particularly interesting class of the latter is multiphotochromic systems made of molecules capable of photochemical transformations. Exciton dynamics in assemblies of photoswitches have been recently investigated using either the molecular exciton model or supermolecular configuration interaction (CI) singles, both approaches being based on a semiempirical Hamiltonian and combined with surface hopping molecular dynamics. Here, we study how inclusion of double excitations in nonadiabatic dynamics simulations affects exciton dynamics of multiazobenzenes, using trisazobenzenophane as an example. We find that both CI singles and CI singles and doubles yield virtually the same time scale of dynamical exciton localization, ∼50 fs for the studied multiazobenzene. However, inclusion of double excitations considerably affects the excited state lifetimes and isomerization quantum yields.
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- Evgenii Titov
- University of Potsdam, Institute of Chemistry, Theoretical Chemistry, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 24-25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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Gonzalvez Perez I, Barford W. Ultrafast Fluorescence Depolarization in Conjugated Polymers. J Phys Chem Lett 2021; 12:5344-5348. [PMID: 34076446 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c01354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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We report on large-scale simulations of intrachain exciton dynamics in poly(para-phenylenevinylene). Our theoretical model describes Frenkel exciton coupling to both fast, quantized C-C bond vibrations and slow, classical torsional modes. We also incorporate system-bath interactions. The dynamics is simulated using the time evolution block decimation method, which avoids the failures of the Ehrenfest approximation to describe decoherence processes and nonadiabatic interstate conversion. System-bath interactions are modeled using quantum trajectories and Lindblad quantum jump operators. We find that following photoexcitation, the quantum mechanical entanglement of the exciton and C-C bond phonons causes exciton-site decoherence. Next, system-bath interactions cause the stochastic collapse of high-energy delocalized excitons into chromophores. Finally, torsional relaxation causes additional exciton-density localization. We relate these dynamical processes to the predicted fluorescence depolarization, extract the time scales corresponding to them, and thus interpret the observed sub-ps fluorescence depolarization.
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- Isabel Gonzalvez Perez
- Department of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QZ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QZ, United Kingdom
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Hegger R, Binder R, Burghardt I. First-Principles Quantum and Quantum-Classical Simulations of Exciton Diffusion in Semiconducting Polymer Chains at Finite Temperature. J Chem Theory Comput 2020; 16:5441-5455. [PMID: 32786907 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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We report on first-principles quantum-dynamical and quantum-classical simulations of photoinduced exciton dynamics in oligothiophene chain segments, representative of intrachain exciton migration in the poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) polymer. Following up on our recent study (Binder R.; Burghardt, I. Faraday Discuss. 2020, 221, 406), multilayer multiconfiguration time-dependent Hartree calculations for a short oligothiophene segment comprising 20 monomer units (OT-20) are carried out to obtain full quantum-dynamical simulations at finite temperature. These are employed to benchmark mean-field Ehrenfest calculations, which are shown to give qualitatively correct results for the present system. Periodic boundary conditions turn out to significantly improve earlier estimates of diffusion coefficients. Using the Ehrenfest approach, a series of calculations are subsequently carried out for larger lattices (OT-40 to OT-80), leading to estimates for temperature-dependent mean-squared displacements, which are found to exhibit a near-linear dependence as a function of time. The resulting diffusion coefficient estimates are an increasing function of temperature, whose detailed functional form depends on the degree of static disorder. With a realistic static disorder parameter (σs ≃ 0.06 eV), the diffusion coefficients decrease from D ∼ 1 × 10-2 cm2 s-1 to D ∼ 1 × 10-3 cm2 s-1, in qualitative agreement with experimental data for P3HT. The dynamical scenario obtained from our simulations shows that exciton migration in P3HT-type chains is a largely adiabatic process throughout the temperature regime we investigated (i.e., T = 50-300 K). The resulting picture of exciton migration is a coherent, but not bandlike, motion of an exciton-polaron driven by fluctuations induced by low-frequency modes. This process acquires partial hopping character if static disorder becomes prominent and Anderson localization sets in.
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- Rainer Hegger
- Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe University, Max-von-Laue-Strasse 7, 60438 Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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- Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe University, Max-von-Laue-Strasse 7, 60438 Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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- Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe University, Max-von-Laue-Strasse 7, 60438 Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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Peterhans L, Nicolaidou E, Diamantis P, Alloa E, Leclerc M, Surin M, Clément S, Rothlisberger U, Banerji N, Hayes SC. Structural and Photophysical Templating of Conjugated Polyelectrolytes with Single-Stranded DNA. CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS : A PUBLICATION OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 2020; 32:7347-7362. [PMID: 33122875 PMCID: PMC7587141 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c02251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2020] [Revised: 08/06/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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A promising approach to influence and control the photophysical properties of conjugated polymers is directing their molecular conformation by templating. We explore here the templating effect of single-stranded DNA oligomers (ssDNAs) on cationic polythiophenes with the goal to uncover the intermolecular interactions that direct the polymer backbone conformation. We have comprehensively characterized the optical behavior and structure of the polythiophenes in conformationally distinct complexes depending on the sequence of nucleic bases and addressed the effect on the ultrafast excited-state relaxation. This, in combination with molecular dynamics simulations, allowed us a detailed atomistic-level understanding of the structure-property correlations. We find that electrostatic and other noncovalent interactions direct the assembly with the polymer, and we identify that optimal templating is achieved with (ideally 10-20) consecutive cytosine bases through numerous π-stacking interactions with the thiophene rings and side groups of the polymer, leading to a rigid assembly with ssDNA, with highly ordered chains and unique optical signatures. Our insights are an important step forward in an effective approach to structural templating and optoelectronic control of conjugated polymers and organic materials in general.
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- Lisa Peterhans
- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University
of Bern, Freiestrasse 3, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Cyprus, P.O. Box 20537, 1678, Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Laboratory
of Computational Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Cyprus, P.O. Box 20537, 1678, Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Department
of Chemistry, Université Laval, G1K 7P4 Quebec
City, Quebec, Canada
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- Laboratory
for Chemistry of Novel Materials, Center for Innovation in Materials
and Polymers, University of Mons −
UMONS, 20 Place du Parc, B-7000 Mons, Belgium
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- Institut
Charles Gerhardt Montpellier, ICGM, UMR 5253 CNRS, Université de Montpellier, Place Eugène Bataillon, F-34095 Montpellier, Cedex
05, France
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- Laboratory
of Computational Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University
of Bern, Freiestrasse 3, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Cyprus, P.O. Box 20537, 1678, Nicosia, Cyprus
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Binder R, Bonfanti M, Lauvergnat D, Burghardt I. First-principles description of intra-chain exciton migration in an oligo(para-phenylene vinylene) chain. I. Generalized Frenkel-Holstein Hamiltonian. J Chem Phys 2020; 152:204119. [PMID: 32486686 DOI: 10.1063/5.0004510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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A generalized Frenkel-Holstein Hamiltonian is constructed to describe exciton migration in oligo(para-phenylene vinylene) chains, based on excited state electronic structure data for an oligomer comprising 20 monomer units (OPV-20). Time-dependent density functional theory calculations using the ωB97XD hybrid functional are employed in conjunction with a transition density analysis to study the low-lying singlet excitations and demonstrate that these can be characterized to a good approximation as a Frenkel exciton manifold. Based on these findings, we employ the analytic mapping procedure of Binder et al. [J. Chem. Phys. 141, 014101 (2014)] to translate one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) potential energy surface (PES) scans to a fully anharmonic, generalized Frenkel-Holstein (FH) Hamiltonian. A 1D PES scan is carried out for intra-ring quinoid distortion modes, while 2D PES scans are performed for the anharmonically coupled inter-monomer torsional and vinylene bridge bond length alternation modes. The kinetic energy is constructed in curvilinear coordinates by an exact numerical procedure, using the TNUM Fortran code. As a result, a fully molecular-based, generalized FH Hamiltonian is obtained, which is subsequently employed for quantum exciton dynamics simulations, as shown in Paper II [R. Binder and I. Burghardt, J. Chem. Phys. 152, 204120 (2020)].
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- Robert Binder
- Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe University, Max-von-Laue-Str. 7, 60438 Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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- Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe University, Max-von-Laue-Str. 7, 60438 Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Institut de Chimie Physique, UMR 8000, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe University, Max-von-Laue-Str. 7, 60438 Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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Binder R, Burghardt I. First-principles description of intra-chain exciton migration in an oligo(para-phenylene vinylene) chain. II. ML-MCTDH simulations of exciton dynamics at a torsional defect. J Chem Phys 2020; 152:204120. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0004511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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- Robert Binder
- Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe University, Max-von-Laue-Str. 7, 60438 Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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- Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe University, Max-von-Laue-Str. 7, 60438 Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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Binder R, Burghardt I. First-principles quantum simulations of exciton diffusion on a minimal oligothiophene chain at finite temperature. Faraday Discuss 2020; 221:406-427. [PMID: 31596291 DOI: 10.1039/c9fd00066f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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High-dimensional multiconfigurational quantum dynamics simulations are carried out at finite temperature to simulate exciton diffusion on an oligothiophene chain, representative of a segment of the poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) polymer. The ab initio parametrized site-based Hamiltonian of Binder et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett., 2018, 120, 227401] is employed to model a 20-site system, including intra-ring and inter-ring high-frequency modes as well as torsional modes which undergo thermal fluctuations induced by an explicit harmonic oscillator bath. The system-bath dynamics is treated within the setting of a stochastic mean-field Schrödinger equation. For the 20-site excitonic system, a total of 20 Frenkel states and 248 modes are propagated using the multi-layer multi-configuration time-dependent Hartree (ML-MCTDH) method. The resulting dynamics can be interpreted in terms of the coherent motion of an exciton-polaron quasi-particle stochastically driven by torsional fluctuations. This dynamics yields a near-linear mean squared displacement (MSD) as a function of time, from which a diffusion coefficient can be deduced which increases with temperature, up to 5.7 × 10-3 cm2 s-1 at T = 300 K.
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- Robert Binder
- Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Str. 7, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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Kidwell NM, Nebgen B, Slipchenko LV, Zwier TS. The effects of site asymmetry on near-degenerate state-to-state vibronic mixing in flexible bichromophores. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:084313. [PMID: 31470719 DOI: 10.1063/1.5107423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Nathanael M. Kidwell
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2084, USA
- Department of Chemistry, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187-8795, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2084, USA
- Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87544, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2084, USA
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Shi L, Willard AP. Modeling the effects of molecular disorder on the properties of Frenkel excitons in organic molecular semiconductors. J Chem Phys 2018; 149:094110. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5044553] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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- Liang Shi
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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Liang R, Cotton SJ, Binder R, Hegger R, Burghardt I, Miller WH. The symmetrical quasi-classical approach to electronically nonadiabatic dynamics applied to ultrafast exciton migration processes in semiconducting polymers. J Chem Phys 2018; 149:044101. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5037815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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- Ruibin Liang
- Department of Chemistry and Kenneth S. Pitzer Center for Theoretical Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley,
California 94720, USA and Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720,
USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Kenneth S. Pitzer Center for Theoretical Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley,
California 94720, USA and Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720,
USA
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- Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Str. 7, 60438 Frankfurt/Main,
Germany
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- Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Str. 7, 60438 Frankfurt/Main,
Germany
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- Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Str. 7, 60438 Frankfurt/Main,
Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Kenneth S. Pitzer Center for Theoretical Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley,
California 94720, USA and Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720,
USA
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Binder R, Lauvergnat D, Burghardt I. Conformational Dynamics Guides Coherent Exciton Migration in Conjugated Polymer Materials: First-Principles Quantum Dynamical Study. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2018; 120:227401. [PMID: 29906150 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.120.227401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2017] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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We report on high-dimensional quantum dynamical simulations of photoinduced exciton migration in a single-chain oligothiophene segment, in view of elucidating the controversial nature of the elementary exciton transport steps in semiconducting polymers. A novel first-principles parametrized Frenkel J aggregate Hamiltonian is employed that goes significantly beyond the standard Frenkel-Holstein Hamiltonian. Departing from a nonequilibrium state created by photoexcitation, these simulations provide evidence of an ultrafast two-timescale process at low temperatures, involving exciton-polaron formation within tens of femtoseconds (fs), followed by torsional relaxation on an ∼400 fs timescale. The second step is the driving force for exciton migration, as initial conjugation breaks are removed by dynamical planarization. The quantum coherent nature of the elementary exciton migration step is consistent with experimental observations highlighting the correlated and vibrationally coherent nature of the dynamics on ultrafast timescales.
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- Robert Binder
- Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Straße 7, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Physique, Université Paris-Sud, UMR 8000, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Straße 7, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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Mannouch JR, Barford W, Al-Assam S. Ultra-fast relaxation, decoherence, and localization of photoexcited states in π-conjugated polymers. J Chem Phys 2018; 148:034901. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5009393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Jonathan R. Mannouch
- Department of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QZ, United Kingdom
- University College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 4BH, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QZ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom
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Park KH, Kim W, Yang J, Kim D. Excited-state structural relaxation and exciton delocalization dynamics in linear and cyclic π-conjugated oligothiophenes. Chem Soc Rev 2018; 47:4279-4294. [DOI: 10.1039/c7cs00605e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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π-Conjugated oligothiophene is considered a chain segment of its polymeric counterpart with simper excited-state dynamics and spectral signatures.
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- Kyu Hyung Park
- Department of Chemistry and Spectroscopy Laboratory for Functional π-Electronic Systems
- Yonsei University
- Seoul 03722
- Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Spectroscopy Laboratory for Functional π-Electronic Systems
- Yonsei University
- Seoul 03722
- Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Medical Chemistry
- Yonsei University
- Wonju
- Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Spectroscopy Laboratory for Functional π-Electronic Systems
- Yonsei University
- Seoul 03722
- Korea
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Wen J, Ma H. A fragmentation-based approach for evaluating the intra-chain excitonic couplings in conjugated polymers. Chem Phys Lett 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2017.04.099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Barford W, Marcus M. Perspective: Optical spectroscopy in π-conjugated polymers and how it can be used to determine multiscale polymer structures. J Chem Phys 2017; 146:130902. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4979495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Binder R, Polkehn M, Ma T, Burghardt I. Ultrafast exciton migration in an HJ-aggregate: Potential surfaces and quantum dynamics. Chem Phys 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2016.09.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Marcus M, Coonjobeeharry J, Barford W. Theory of optical transitions in π-conjugated macrocycles. J Chem Phys 2016; 144:154102. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4946794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Barford W, Marcus M, Tozer OR. Polarons in π-Conjugated Polymers: Anderson or Landau? J Phys Chem A 2016; 120:615-20. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b08764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- William Barford
- Department
of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QZ, United Kingdom
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- Department
of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QZ, United Kingdom
- Magdalen
College, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 4AU, U.K
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- Department
of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QZ, United Kingdom
- University
College, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 4BH, U.K
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Fernandez-Alberti S, Makhov DV, Tretiak S, Shalashilin DV. Non-adiabatic excited state molecular dynamics of phenylene ethynylene dendrimer using a multiconfigurational Ehrenfest approach. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:10028-40. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cp07332d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Photoinduced dynamics of electronic and vibrational unidirectional energy transfer between meta-linked building blocks in a phenylene ethynylene dendrimer is simulated using a multiconfigurational Ehrenfest in time-dependent diabatic basis (MCE-TDDB) method.
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- Center for Nonlinear Studies (CNLS)
- and Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT)
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Los Alamos
- USA
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Tozer OR, Barford W. Intrachain exciton dynamics in conjugated polymer chains in solution. J Chem Phys 2015; 143:084102. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4929378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Song Y, Hellmann C, Stingelin N, Scholes GD. The separation of vibrational coherence from ground- and excited-electronic states in P3HT film. J Chem Phys 2015; 142:212410. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4916325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Yin Song
- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
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- Department of Materials and Centre for Plastic Electronics, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Materials and Centre for Plastic Electronics, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Washington Road, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
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Kilina S, Kilin D, Tretiak S. Light-Driven and Phonon-Assisted Dynamics in Organic and Semiconductor Nanostructures. Chem Rev 2015; 115:5929-78. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 140] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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- Svetlana Kilina
- Chemistry
and Biochemistry Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 5810, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, United States
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- Theoretical
Division, Center for Nonlinear Studies (CNLS) and Center for Integrated
Nanotechnologies (CINT), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, United States
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Bjorgaard JA, Köse ME. Simulations of singlet exciton diffusion in organic semiconductors: a review. RSC Adv 2015. [DOI: 10.1039/c4ra12409j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Recent advances in exciton diffusion simulations in conjugated materials are presented in this review.
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- Josiah A. Bjorgaard
- Center for Nonlinear Studies
- Theoretical Division
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Los Alamos
- USA
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Barford W, Marcus M. Theory of optical transitions in conjugated polymers. I. Ideal systems. J Chem Phys 2014; 141:164101. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4897984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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- William Barford
- Department of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QZ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QZ, United Kingdom
- Magdalen College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 4AU, United Kingdom
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Barford W, Tozer OR. Theory of exciton transfer and diffusion in conjugated polymers. J Chem Phys 2014; 141:164103. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4897986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Marcus M, Tozer OR, Barford W. Theory of optical transitions in conjugated polymers. II. Real systems. J Chem Phys 2014; 141:164102. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4897985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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- Max Marcus
- Department of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QZ, United Kingdom
- Magdalen College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 4AU, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QZ, United Kingdom
- University College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 4BH, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QZ, United Kingdom
- Balliol College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3BJ, United Kingdom
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Binder R, Römer S, Wahl J, Burghardt I. An analytic mapping of oligomer potential energy surfaces to an effective Frenkel model. J Chem Phys 2014; 141:014101. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4880415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Hestand NJ, Spano FC. The Effect of Chain Bending on the Photophysical Properties of Conjugated Polymers. J Phys Chem B 2014; 118:8352-63. [DOI: 10.1021/jp501857n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Nicholas J. Hestand
- Department
of Chemistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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Ma H, Qin T, Troisi A. Electronic Excited States in Amorphous MEH-PPV Polymers from Large-Scale First Principles Calculations. J Chem Theory Comput 2014; 10:1272-82. [DOI: 10.1021/ct4010799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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- Haibo Ma
- Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic
Chemistry of MOE, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Institute
of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
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- Department of Chemistry and
Centre of Scientific Computing, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry and
Centre of Scientific Computing, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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Yamagata H, Spano FC. Strong Photophysical Similarities between Conjugated Polymers and J-aggregates. J Phys Chem Lett 2014; 5:622-32. [PMID: 26276619 DOI: 10.1021/jz402450m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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The photophysical properties of emissive conjugated polymer (CP) chains are compared to those of linear J-aggregates. The two systems share many properties in common, including a red-shifted absorption spectrum with increasing chain/aggregate length, enhanced radiative decay rates (superradiance) relative to a single monomer/molecule, and several vibronic signatures involving the vinyl-stretching mode common to many conjugated molecules. In particular, the scaling of the 0-0/0-1 photoluminescence ratio and radiative decay rate with the inverse square root of temperature in red-phase polydiacetylene is also characteristic of linear, disorder-free J-aggregates. The strong photophysical resemblance is traced to the excitonic band structure; in one-dimensional direct band gap semiconductors as well as J-aggregates, the exciton band curvature is positive at the gamma point (k = 0).
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- Hajime Yamagata
- Department of Chemistry, Temple University, 1901 North 13th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Temple University, 1901 North 13th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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Paraecattil AA, Banerji N. Charge Separation Pathways in a Highly Efficient Polymer: Fullerene Solar Cell Material. J Am Chem Soc 2014; 136:1472-82. [DOI: 10.1021/ja410340g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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- Arun Aby Paraecattil
- Institute
of Chemical Sciences
and Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), SB
ISIC GR-MO, Station 6, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Chemical Sciences
and Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), SB
ISIC GR-MO, Station 6, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Buchanan EG, Walsh PS, Plusquellic DF, Zwier TS. Excitonic splitting and vibronic coupling in 1,2-diphenoxyethane: Conformation-specific effects in the weak coupling limit. J Chem Phys 2013; 138:204313. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4807300] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Schwarz KN, Kee TW, Huang DM. Coarse-grained simulations of the solution-phase self-assembly of poly(3-hexylthiophene) nanostructures. NANOSCALE 2013; 5:2017-27. [PMID: 23370200 DOI: 10.1039/c3nr33324h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Under certain conditions the conjugated polymer poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) self-assembles into high-aspect-ratio nanostructures (known as nanofibres, nanowires, or nanoribbons) when cooled below its solubility limit in a marginal solvent such as anisole. Such nanostructures are potentially beneficial for organic photovoltaic device performance. In this work, Langevin dynamics simulations of a coarse-grained model of P3HT in implicit anisole solvent are used to study the self-assembly of P3HT nanostructures for polymer chain lengths and concentrations used experimentally to prepare P3HT nanofibres. The coarse-grained model is parametrised to match the local structure and dynamics of an atomistic model with explicit solvent. Nanofibres are also prepared experimentally and characterised by atomic force microscopy and UV-vis spectroscopy. The simulations match the experimental phase behaviour of P3HT in anisole, showing aggregation of P3HT at 293 and 308 K but not at 323 or 353 K. Single-chain simulations at 293 K reveal two distinct nano-scale aggregate morphologies: hairpins and helices. Hairpin aggregates, which are the precursors of nanofibres, are slightly favoured energetically at 293 K for nuclei of the critical size of ≈80 monomers for aggregation. Consequently, chains in multi-chain aggregates adopt the hairpin morphology exclusively in simulations at experimental concentrations at 293 K. The simulated aggregate sizes match experimentally measured nanofibre widths. An estimate of the shift in UV-vis absorption of P3HT due to the change in conjugation length with aggregation in the simulations agrees reasonably well with experiment and shows that most of the spectral red shift that occurs with nanofibre formation is due to increased planarisation of the P3HT chains. In addition to providing insight into the mechanisms of nanofibre formation, the simulations resolve details of the molecular-level organisation of chains in P3HT nanofibres hitherto inaccessible by experiment.
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- Kyra N Schwarz
- School of Chemistry & Physics, The University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
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Panda AN, Plasser F, Aquino AJA, Burghardt I, Lischka H. Electronically excited states in poly(p-phenylenevinylene): vertical excitations and torsional potentials from high-level ab initio calculations. J Phys Chem A 2013; 117:2181-9. [PMID: 23427902 PMCID: PMC3598239 DOI: 10.1021/jp400372t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Ab
initio second-order algebraic diagrammatic construction (ADC(2)) calculations
using the resolution of the identity (RI) method have been performed
on poly-(p-phenylenevinylene) (PPV) oligomers with
chain lengths up to eight phenyl rings. Vertical excitation energies
for the four lowest π–π* excitations and geometry
relaxation effects for the lowest excited state (S1) are
reported. Extrapolation to infinite chain length shows good agreement
with analogous data derived from experiment. Analysis of the bond
length alternation (BLA) based on the optimized S1 geometry
provides conclusive evidence for the localization of the defect in
the center of the oligomer chain. Torsional potentials have been computed
for the four excited states investigated and the transition densities
divided into fragment contributions have been used to identify excitonic
interactions. The present investigation provides benchmark results,
which can be used (i) as reference for lower level methods and (ii)
give the possibility to parametrize an effective Frenkel exciton Hamiltonian
for quantum dynamical simulations of ultrafast exciton transfer dynamics
in PPV type systems.
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- Aditya N Panda
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, 781039, Assam, India
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- William Barford
- Department of Chemistry, Physical
and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QZ, United Kingdom
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Binder R, Wahl J, Römer S, Burghardt I. Coherent exciton transport driven by torsional dynamics: a quantum dynamical study of phenylene-vinylene type conjugated systems. Faraday Discuss 2013; 163:205-22; discussion 243-75. [DOI: 10.1039/c3fd20148a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Denis JC, Schumacher S, Galbraith I. Quantitative description of interactions between linear organic chromophores. J Chem Phys 2012; 137:224102. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4768244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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