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Electrohelicity arises in molecules such as allene and spiropentadiene when their symmetry is reduced and helical frontier molecular orbitals (MOs) appear. Such molecules are optically active and electrohelicity has been suggested as a possible design prin ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2023

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Transition metal oxides represent a class of materials displaying very unusual electronic, structural and magnetic properties. They are extremely interesting, both from a technological and fundamental point of view. The most important characteristic of the ...

EPFL2023

Single molecule fluorescence and phosphorescence studies using a scanning tunneling microscope

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This thesis investigates novel single-molecule luminescence phenomena at their inherent, sub-molecular length scale. The microscopic understanding of luminescence processes will be crucial for the continued improvement of organic optoelectronic and semicon ...

EPFL2022

Koopmans Spectral Functionals in Periodic Boundary Conditions

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Koopmans spectral functionals aim to describe simultaneously ground-state properties and charged excitations of atoms, molecules, nanostructures, and periodic crystals. This is achieved by augmenting standard density functionals with simple but physically ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Mapping Orbital-Resolved Magnetism in Single Lanthanide Atoms

Harald Brune, Stefano Rusponi, Marina Pivetta, Fabio Donati, Aparajita Singha

Single lanthanide atoms and molecules are promising candidates for atomic data storage and quantum logic due to the long lifetime of their magnetic quantum states. Accessing and controlling these states through electrical transport requires precise knowled ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Helical electronic transitions of spiroconjugated molecules

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Marc Hamilton Folkmann Garner

The two pi-systems of allene can combine into helical molecular orbitals (MOs), yet the helicity is lost in the pi-pi* transitions due to excited state mixing. In spiroconjugated molecules the relative orientation of the two pi-systems is different and con ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2021

Investigating Tetrel-Based Neutral Frustrated Lewis Pairs for Hydrogen Activation

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Tetrel Lewis acids are a prospective alternative to commonly employed neutral boranes in frustrated Lewis pair (FLP) chemistry. While cationic tetrylium Lewis acids, being isolobal and iso(valence)electronic, are a natural replacement to boranes, neutral t ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Building blocks for commodity augmented reality-based molecular visualization and modeling in web browsers

Luciano Andres Abriata

For years, immersive interfaces using virtual and augmented reality (AR) for molecular visualization and modeling have promised a revolution in the way how we teach, learn, communicate and work in chemistry, structural biology and related areas. However, m ...

2020

Correlation between Optical Activity and the Helical Molecular Orbitals of Allene and Cumulenes

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Marc Hamilton Folkmann Garner

Helical frontier molecular orbitals (MOs) appear in disubstituted allenes and even-n cumulenes. Chiral molecules are optically active, but while these molecules are single-handed chiral, p-orbitals of both helicities are present. Here we computationally ex ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Ultrafast Photoelectron and Optical Spectroscopies of Photoinduced Processes in Molecular Systems in Solution

Luca Longetti

Investigating molecular excitations with femtosecond time resolution is of pivotal importance to understand the out-of-equilibrium processes taking place in molecular systems upon light absorption. The photochemistry of solvated species is heavily determin ...

EPFL2020

X-ray absorption linear dichroism at the Ti K edge of anatase TiO2 single crystals

Majed Chergui, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Thomas Charles Henry Rossi, Camila Bacellar Cases Da Silveira, Dominik Kinschel, Oliviero Cannelli, Jérémy Raymond Jean Maurice Rouxel

Anatase TiO2 (a-TiO2) exhibits a strong x-ray absorption linear dichroism in the pre-edge, the XANES and the EXAFS at the titanium K edge. In the pre-edge region, the behavior of the A1-A3 and B peaks originating from the 1s - 3d transitions is due to the ...

2019

Auger-induced charge migration

Christoph Bostedt

Novel perspectives of controlling molecular systems have recently arisen from the possibility of generating attosecond pulses in the ultraviolet regime and tailoring electron dynamics in its natural time scale. The cornerstone mechanism is the so-called ch ...

2018

Molecular bonding with the RPAx: From weak dispersion forces to strong correlation

Nicola Colonna

In a recent paper [Phys. Rev. B 90, 125102 ( 2014)], we showed that the random phase approximation with exchange (RPAx) gives accurate total energies for a diverse set of systems including the high and low density regime of the homogeneous electron gas, th ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

Development of prediction models for the reactivity of organic compounds with ozone in aqueous solution by quantum chemical calculations: Role of delocalized and localized molecular orbitals

Urs von Gunten, Minju Lee, Jeremy Samuel Arey, Saskia Gisela Zimmermann-Steffens, Kathrin Fenner

Second-order rate constants (k(O3)) for the reaction of ozone with micropollutants are essential parameters for the assessment of micropollutant elimination efficiency during ozonation in water and wastewater treatment. Prediction models for k(O3) were dev ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

CDW and Similarity of the Mott Insulator-to-Metal Transition in Cuprates with the Gas-to-Liquid-Liquid Transition in Supercooled Water

Davide Innocenti

New advances in X-ray diffraction, extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS), and X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) using synchrotron radiation have now provided compelling evidence for a short-range charge density wave phase (CDW) called ...

Springer2015

Local electronic properties and adsorption conformations of molecular nanostructures at surfaces

Ivan Pentegov

Nanoscale science is an emerging field of our time and opens a broad horizon for applications in almost every area of human activity, from medicine to energy storage. As usual, there are numerous challenges in the way of progress, which slow down the devel ...

EPFL2015

Ultrafast Photophysics of Transition Metal Complexes

Majed Chergui

CONSPECTUS: The properties of transition metal complexes are interesting not only for their potential applications in solar energy conversion, OLEDs, molecular electronics, biology, photochemistry, etc. but also for their fascinating photophysical properti ...

American Chemical Society2015

Band alignment and chemical bonding at the GaAs/Al2O3 interface: A hybrid functional study

Alfredo Pasquarello, Giacomo Francesco Leonardo Miceli, Davide Colleoni

The band alignment at the interface between GaAs and amorphous Al2O3 is studied through the use of hybrid functionals. For the oxide component, a disordered model is generated through density-functional molecular dynamics. The achieved structure shows good ...

2015

Antibonding ground state in photonic crystal molecules

Laurent Balet, Massimo Gurioli

We employ a far-field analysis of the angular emission pattern to experimentally assess the symmetry of localized modes in coupled photonic-crystal cavities. We demonstrate that the spatial distribution of localized modes in photonic-crystal nanocavities m ...

2012

Bonding and Charge Transfer in Metal-Organic Coordination Networks on Au(111) with Strong Acceptor Molecules

Klaus Kern, Sebastian Stepanow, Alexander Langner, Nan Jiang

The geometric and electronic structure of two structurally similar metal organic networks grown on the Au(111) surface is investigated by scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) and spectroscopy (STS) combined with density functional theory (DFT) calculations ...

Amer Chemical Soc2012