Excited states of porphyrin and porphycene aggregates: Computational insights

Computational and Theoretical Chemistry

Volumn 1040-1041, Issue , 2014, Pages 274-286

  Bergendahl, L Therese ^a   Paterson, Martin J ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggregate; Density Functional Theory; Dispersion; Photochemistry; Porphycene; Porphyrin

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903882529     PISSN: 2210271X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2014.03.014     Document Type: Article

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