Theoretical study of the local and charge-transfer excitations in model complexes of pentacene-C60 using tuned range-separated hybrid functionals

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2379-2388

  Zhang, Cai Rong ^a,b   Sears, John S ^a   Yang, Bing ^a,c   Aziz, Saadullah G ^d   Coropceanu, Veaceslav ^a   Brédas, Jean Luc ^a,d  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c Jilin University   (China)

^d KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

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EID: 84902192751     PISSN: 15499618     EISSN: 15499626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ct500259m     Document Type: Article

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