Contact info:
Prof. Ll. Blancafort
lluis.blancafort@udg.edu
Tel. (+34) 972 41 88 06
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Annapaola Migani and Lluís Blancafort
What Controls Photocatalytic Water Oxidation on Rutile TiO2(110) under Ultra-High-Vacuum Conditions?
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 11845–11856
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b05121
Xing-Liang Peng, Sergi Ruiz-Barragan, Ze-Sheng Li, Quan-Song Li, Lluís Blancafort
Restricted access to a conical intersection to explain aggregation induced emission in dimethyl tetraphenylsilole
J. Mater. Chem. C, 2016, 4, 2802-2810
DOI: 10.1039/c5tc03322e
Roberto Improta, Fabrizio Santoro, Lluís Blancafort
Quantum Mechanical Studies on the Photophysics and the Photochemistry of Nucleic Acids and Nucleobases
Chem. Rev., 2016, 116, 3540-3593
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00444
Lluís Blancafort
Photochemistry and Photophysics at Extended Seams of Conical Intersection
ChemPhysChem, 2014, 15, 3166-3181
DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201402359
We focus on relevant applications in biology and chemistry, including:
– The DNA nucleobases and other biological chromophores
– Photochemical reactions: Wolff rearrangement, excited state hydrogen transfer, diazo-based switches
– Extended conical intersection seams
Electron transfer (ET) and excitation energy transfer (EET) are very important in biochemistry and material science. We center on the development of theoretical and computational tools to explore ET and EET in biomolecules and organic materials and the use of elaborated techniques to understand the underlying mechanisms that control charge and exciton migration in the molecular systems. The effects of structural fluctuations on the ET and EET properties of DNA are of special interest.
Dynamics simulations are very important to understand excited state processes, which usually occur far away from the equilibrium, with high excess of available energy. Quantum effects are also important at conical intersections where two states of the same multiplicity are degenerate and population is transferred from one state to the other. In this context, we carry out the simulation of excited state processes with dynamics, focusing on the role of conical intersection seams. We also aim at the optical control of the photochemical and photophysical processes, for instance with the non-resonant dynamic Stark effect, where the potential energy surface is shaped with strong external electric fields.
For many important excited state processes, such as those that occur in biological systems or molecular materials, the environment plays a key role, and it is mandatory to include it in the modelling. Some of our recent work on complex systems:
– Photophysics of the DNA nucleobases in solution
– Molecular photophysics in crystals: aggregation induced emission
– Conical intersection optimizations in complex systems, polarizable QM/MM.
Prof. Agregat
ICREA Sènior
MACMoM student
Supervisor:The Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis of the University of Girona organizes the 1st Science
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CH3OH on a single-crystal rutile TiO2(110) surface is a widely studied model system