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Fullerene–Porphyrin Dyads
A design of organic molecules for a wide range of nonlinear optical applications is still the subject of intense experimental and theoretical research [1, 2, 3]. The ease of processing and modification as well...
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Porphyrins
All life on the Earth depends on photosynthesis which is a photochemical process in green plants and in some bacteria that has a very high quantum yield unusual for visible light energy transformation into org...
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Nonlinear Optical Properties of Fullerene Derivatives
During recent years, a significant progress has been observed in the field of synthesis and characterization of photoactive materials. In particular,tremendous effort have been invested in design of materials ...
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Exohedral Metallofullerenes
Fullerene-based materials have attracted considerable interest since the discovery of C60. A promising area of research concerns metal–fullerene interactions and their application to advanced nano materials, with...
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Endohedral Metallofullerenes
Since their discovery endohedral fullerenes have been extensively investigated because of their novel structure and properties. Electrical properties have been of major interest owing to a variety of possible ...
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Linear Scaling Methodology
In 1991 the elongation method, an efficient method for quantum mechanical calculations of large systems, was originally proposed by Imamura [1] during one of his stays in Heidelberg, Germany. Although in the e...