TCI SE M I N A R
Monday,
3:30 p.m.
March 28th, 2016
Room 8335
Professor Adam Willard
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Many organic electronic materials are composed of soft condensed matter that is both electronically active and disordered on the nanoscale. The electronic properties of these materials can depend sensitively on the details of this nanoscale disorder. This dependence reflects a complex coupling between excited electrons and the disordered nuclear environment. To better understand this coupling and how nanoscale disorder affects the electronic dynamics in these materials we utilize numerical simulation. Our approach combines classical atomistic simulation with coarse-­‐grained models of quantum dynamics in order to explore the interplay between molecular disorder and the dynamics of excited electrons. Theoretical Chemistry Institute Seminar Series