Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy Facility

Superextensive electrical power from a quantum battery

K Hymas, JB Muir, D Tibben, J van Embden, T Hirai, CJ Dunn, DE Gómez, JA Hutchison, TA Smith, JQ Quach

2026-12-01

Superextensivity, where the response of a physical system scales super-linearly with size, originates from collective quantum effe..

Intrinsic Charge Separation in Pt-Loaded Y-Series Nonfullerene Acceptor Nanoparticles: Implication for the Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

Andrew Dolan, Harrison J McAfee, Madeleine E James Loeliger, Jessica M de la Perrelle, Trevor A Smith, Xun Pan, Mats R Andersson, Top Archie Dela Peña, Ruijie Ma, Jiaying Wu, David M Huang, Tak W Kee

2026-04-10

Y-series nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) have previously been investigated as Pt-loaded organic photocatalysts and homojunction sola..

Interexcited State Photophysics II: A Qualitative Excited State Dynamics Model from First-Principles

A Manian, JM de la Perrelle, RJ Hudson, Z Goh, TA Smith, TW Kee, SP Russo

2025-04-22

In Part I of this series [J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2023, 19(1), 271-292], a benchmarking study of nuclear-electronic couplings was ..

Morphological Control of Y6 Thin Films Reveals Charge Transfer Is Facilitated by Co-facial Interactions

A Kumar, RJ Hudson, NA Shumilov, CY Lin, TA Smith, NJLK Davis, EC Le Ru, MB Price, PA Hume, JM Hodgkiss

2025-02-06

The organic semiconductor Y6 has been extensively used as an acceptor in organic photovoltaic devices, yielding high efficiencies...

Colloidal Synthesis of Carbon Dot-ZnSe Nanoplatelet Van der Waals Heterostructures for Boosting Photocatalytic Generation of Methanol-Storable Hydrogen

D Chen, RJ Hudson, C Tang, Q Sun, JR Harmer, M Liu, M Ghasemi, X Wen, Z Liu, W Peng, X Yan, B Cowie, Y Gao, CL Raston, A Du, TA Smith, Q Li

2024-10-03

Methanol is not only a promising liquid hydrogen carrier but also an important feedstock chemical for chemical synthesis. Catalyst..

From light to hydrogen: the complete life cycle of free charges in photocatalytic nanoparticles

JM de la Perrelle, RJ Hudson, A Dolan, S Jana, X Pan, MR Andersson, HS Tan, ZH Alotaibi, GG Andersson, TA Smith, DM Huang, TW Kee

2024-06-04

The blend of donor PM6 and non-fullerene acceptor Y6 is high performing as both an active layer in organic photovoltaics and as a ..

Photophysical Studies of Helicate and Mesocate Double-Stranded Dinuclear Ru(II) Complexes

Xinyue Xu, Samuel JP Marlton, Kate L Flint, Rohan J Hudson, F Richard Keene, Christopher R Hall, Trevor A Smith

2024-04-19

The metal–ligand charge transfer (3MLCT) and phosphorescence-quenching metal-centered (3MC) states of the helicate and mesocate di..

Quantifying the Relaxation Dynamics of Higher Electronic Excited States in Perylene.

Rohan J Hudson, Anjay Manian, Christopher R Hall, Timothy W Schmidt, Salvy P Russo, Kenneth P Ghiggino, Trevor A Smith

2023-08-31

Gating logical operations through high-lying electronic excited states presents opportunities for developing ultrafast, subnanomet..

The role of conformational heterogeneity in the excited state dynamics of linked diketopyrrolopyrrole dimers

SJ Bradley, M Chi, JM White, CR Hall, L Goerigk, TA Smith, KP Ghiggino

2021-04-21

Diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) derivatives have been proposed for both singlet fission and energy upconversion as they meet the energe..