TY - JOUR
T1 - Electronically excited states and photodynamics
T2 - A continuing challenge
AU - Plasser, Felix
AU - Barbatti, Mario
AU - Aquino, Adélia J.A.
AU - Lischka, Hans
N1 - Funding Information:
This work has been supported by the Austrian Science Fund within the framework of the Special Research Program and F41 Vienna Computational Materials Laboratory (ViCoM). FP is a recipient of a DOC fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The calculations were performed in part at the Vienna Scientific Cluster (project nos. 70019 and 70151) of the Vienna University Computer Centre. This work was also performed as part of research supported by the National Science Foundation Partnership in International Research and Education (PIRE) Grant No. OISE-0730114; support was also provided by the Robert A. Welch Foundation under Grant No. D-0005.
PY - 2012/1
Y1 - 2012/1
N2 - The purpose of this contribution is the description of the progress in theoretical investigations on electronically excited states in connection with photodynamical simulations made within the last years and to provide an outlook on the scope of future applications and challenges. An overview over excited-state phenomenology is given and the applicability of different computational methods is discussed. Both electronic structure- and dynamics methods are considered. The examples presented comprise the explanation of the photostability of individual DNA nucleobases, the photodynamics of DNA including excitonic and charge-transfer processes, the primary processes of vision and the broad field of photovoltaics, photodevices, and molecular machines.
AB - The purpose of this contribution is the description of the progress in theoretical investigations on electronically excited states in connection with photodynamical simulations made within the last years and to provide an outlook on the scope of future applications and challenges. An overview over excited-state phenomenology is given and the applicability of different computational methods is discussed. Both electronic structure- and dynamics methods are considered. The examples presented comprise the explanation of the photostability of individual DNA nucleobases, the photodynamics of DNA including excitonic and charge-transfer processes, the primary processes of vision and the broad field of photovoltaics, photodevices, and molecular machines.
KW - Electronic structure
KW - Excited states
KW - Nonadiabatic phenomena
KW - Photodynamics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84855513583&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s00214-011-1073-y
DO - 10.1007/s00214-011-1073-y
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84855513583
SN - 1432-881X
VL - 131
SP - 1
EP - 14
JO - Theoretical Chemistry Accounts
JF - Theoretical Chemistry Accounts
IS - 1
M1 - 1073
ER -