Engineering couplings for exciton transport using synthetic DNA scaffolds

How the Protein Environment Can Tune the Energy, the Coupling, and the Ultrafast Dynamics of Interacting Chlorophylls: The Example of the Water-Soluble Chlorophyll Protein

(2020) Elisa Fresch et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Ultrafast Excitation Transfer in Cy5 DNA Photonic Wires Displays Dye Conjugation and Excitation Energy Dependency

(2020) Richard J. Mazuski et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Delocalized Two-Exciton States in DNA Scaffolded Cyanine Dimers

(2020) Paul D. Cunningham et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Identification of Nonradiative Decay Pathways in Cy3

(2020) Stephanie M. Hart et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Measuring the Ultrafast Correlation Dynamics between the Qx and Qy Bands in Chlorophyll Molecules

(2019) M. Faisal Khyasudeen et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Autonomously designed free-form 2D DNA origami

(2019) Hyungmin Jun et al.   Science Advances

The Electronic Structure of Lutein 2 Is Optimized for Light Harvesting in Plants

(2019) Minjung Son et al.   Chem

Programming Structured DNA Assemblies to Probe Biophysical Processes

(2019) Eike-Christian Wamhoff et al.   Annual Review of Biophysics

Directed Energy Transfer through DNA-Templated J-Aggregates

(2019) Sarthak Mandal et al.   BIOCONJUGATE CHEMISTRY

DNA-Templated Aggregates of Strongly Coupled Cyanine Dyes: Nonradiative Decay Governs Exciton Lifetimes

(2019) Jonathan S. Huff et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Efficient Long-Range, Directional Energy Transfer through DNA-Templated Dye Aggregates

(2019) Xu Zhou et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy Reveals the Spectral Dynamics of Förster Resonance Energy Transfer

(2019) Brian K. Petkov et al.   Chem

Automated sequence design of 2D wireframe DNA origami with honeycomb edges

(2019) Hyungmin Jun et al.   Nature Communications

The effect of laser pulse bandwidth on the measurement of the frequency fluctuation correlation functions in 2D electronic spectroscopy

(2018) Paweł J. Nowakowski et al.   CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Expanded Theory of H- and J-Molecular Aggregates: The Effects of Vibronic Coupling and Intermolecular Charge Transfer

(2018) Nicholas J. Hestand et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Temperature-dependent conformations of exciton-coupled Cy3 dimers in double-stranded DNA

(2018) Loni Kringle et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Large Davydov Splitting and Strong Fluorescence Suppression: An Investigation of Exciton Delocalization in DNA-Templated Holliday Junction Dye Aggregates

(2018) Brittany L. Cannon et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A

Optical Properties of Vibronically Coupled Cy3 Dimers on DNA Scaffolds

(2018) Paul D. Cunningham et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Exploiting Chromophore–Protein Interactions through Linker Engineering To Tune Photoinduced Dynamics in a Biomimetic Light-Harvesting Platform

(2018) Milan Delor et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Coherent wavepackets in the Fenna–Matthews–Olson complex are robust to excitonic-structure perturbations caused by mutagenesis

(2018) Margherita Maiuri et al.   Nature Chemistry

Complete Kinetic Theory of FRET

(2018) Tobias Eilert et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Photophysics of J-Aggregate-Mediated Energy Transfer on DNA

(2017) James L. Banal et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Using coherence to enhance function in chemical and biophysical systems

(2017) Gregory D. Scholes et al.   NATURE

Controlling quantum-beating signals in 2D electronic spectra by packing synthetic heterodimers on single-walled carbon nanotubes

(2017) Lili Wang et al.   Nature Chemistry

Programmed coherent coupling in a synthetic DNA-based excitonic circuit

(2017) Étienne Boulais et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Ultrabroadband 2D electronic spectroscopy with high-speed, shot-to-shot detection

(2017) Minjung Son et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Coherent electronic and nuclear dynamics in a rhodamine heterodimer–DNA supramolecular complex

(2017) M. Cipolloni et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Perturbation of bacteriochlorophyll molecules in Fenna–Matthews–Olson protein complexes through mutagenesis of cysteine residues

(2016) Rafael Saer et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

The Role of Resonant Vibrations in Electronic Energy Transfer

(2016) Pavel Malý et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Assessing the Current State of Amber Force Field Modifications for DNA

(2016) Rodrigo Galindo-Murillo et al.   Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Proximity-Induced H-Aggregation of Cyanine Dyes on DNA-Duplexes

(2016) Francesca Nicoli et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A

Methylene Blue Exciton States Steer Nonradiative Relaxation: Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Methylene Blue Dimer

(2016) Jacob C. Dean et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Programming Light-Harvesting Efficiency Using DNA Origami

(2016) Elisa A. Hemmig et al.   NANO LETTERS

Designer nanoscale DNA assemblies programmed from the top down

(2016) R. Veneziano et al.   SCIENCE

Valleytronics in 2D materials

(2016) John R. Schaibley et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Experimental Implementations of Two-Dimensional Fourier Transform Electronic Spectroscopy

(2015) Franklin D. Fuller et al.   Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Metal–organic framework materials for light-harvesting and energy transfer

(2015) Monica C. So et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Center Line Slope Analysis in Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy

(2015) František Šanda et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A

Manipulating Excited-State Dynamics of Individual Light-Harvesting Chromophores through Restricted Motions in a Hydrated Nanoscale Protein Cavity

(2015) Rodrigo Noriega et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Vibronic origin of long-lived coherence in an artificial molecular light harvester

(2015) James Lim et al.   Nature Communications

Vibronic phenomena and exciton–vibrational interference in two-dimensional spectra of molecular aggregates

(2014) Vytautas Butkus et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Direct Observation of Ultrafast Excimer Formation in Covalent Perylenediimide Dimers Using Near-Infrared Transient Absorption Spectroscopy

(2014) Kristen E. Brown et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Accurate design of co-assembling multi-component protein nanomaterials

(2014) Neil P. King et al.   NATURE

Two-dimensional spectroscopy of a molecular dimer unveils the effects of vibronic coupling on exciton coherences

(2014) Alexei Halpin et al.   Nature Chemistry

An improved surface passivation method for single-molecule studies

(2014) Boyang Hua et al.   NATURE METHODS

J- vs. H-type assembly: pentamethine cyanine (Cy5) as a near-IR chiroptical reporter

(2013) Larysa I. Markova et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

PTRAJ and CPPTRAJ: Software for Processing and Analysis of Molecular Dynamics Trajectory Data

(2013) Daniel R. Roe et al.   Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Photophysical and Dynamical Properties of Doubly Linked Cy3–DNA Constructs

(2013) Elana M. S. Stennett et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Relative and absolute determination of fluorescence quantum yields of transparent samples

(2013) Christian Würth et al.   Nature Protocols

Engineering Coherence Among Excited States in Synthetic Heterodimer Systems

(2013) D. Hayes et al.   SCIENCE

Photon harvesting by excimer-forming multichromophores

(2012) Oliver O. Adeyemi et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Electronic resonance with anticorrelated pigment vibrations drives photosynthetic energy transfer outside the adiabatic framework

(2012) Vivek Tiwari et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A DNA-Based Light-Harvesting Antenna

(2011) Florian Garo et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Design principles of photosynthetic light-harvesting

(2011) Graham R. Fleming et al.   FARADAY DISCUSSIONS

The effect of correlated bath fluctuations on exciton transfer

(2011) Johan Strümpfer et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Excitation Energy Transfer in a Non-Markovian Dynamical Disordered Environment: Localization, Narrowing, and Transfer Efficiency

(2011) Xin Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

DNA-Directed Artificial Light-Harvesting Antenna

(2011) Palash K. Dutta et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Accurate Distance Determination of Nucleic Acids via Förster Resonance Energy Transfer: Implications of Dye Linker Length and Rigidity

(2011) Simon Sindbert et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Lessons from nature about solar light harvesting

(2011) Gregory D. Scholes et al.   Nature Chemistry

The DNA three-way junction as a mould for tripartite chromophore assembly

(2011) Markus Probst et al.   ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY

NWChem: A comprehensive and scalable open-source solution for large scale molecular simulations

(2010) M. Valiev et al.   COMPUTER PHYSICS COMMUNICATIONS

Effect of correlation of local fluctuations on exciton coherence

(2010) Xin Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Vibrational wave packet induced oscillations in two-dimensional electronic spectra. I. Experiments

(2010) Alexandra Nemeth et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Vibrational wave packet induced oscillations in two-dimensional electronic spectra. II. Theory

(2010) Tomáš Mančal et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Dynamic fluorescence depolarization: A powerful tool to explore protein folding on the ribosome

(2010) Sarah A. Weinreis et al.   METHODS

Efficient energy transfer in light-harvesting systems, I: optimal temperature, reorganization energy and spatial–temporal correlations

(2010) Jianlan Wu et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Quantum coherence and its interplay with protein environments in photosynthetic electronic energy transfer

(2010) Akihito Ishizaki et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Impact of Emission Anisotropy on Fluorescence Spectroscopy and FRET Distance Measurements

(2009) Vassili Ivanov et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Relationship between the Molecular Structure of Cyanine Dyes and the Vibrational Fine Structure of their Electronic Absorption Spectra

(2009) Heinz Mustroph et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Lindblad equations for strongly coupled populations and coherences in photosynthetic complexes

(2009) Benoit Palmieri et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Self-assembly of DNA into nanoscale three-dimensional shapes

(2009) Shawn M. Douglas et al.   NATURE

Coherent Intrachain Energy Migration in a Conjugated Polymer at Room Temperature

(2009) E. Collini et al.   SCIENCE

Dynamics of Light Harvesting in Photosynthesis

(2008) Yuan-Chung Cheng et al.   Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Orientation dependence in fluorescent energy transfer between Cy3 and Cy5 terminally attached to double-stranded nucleic acids

(2008) A. Iqbal et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA