Computational Chemical Physics

We are developing and applying quantum and classical molecular simulation methods to study:

  • Charge transport and excited state processes in organic semiconductors
  • Electron transfer and electronic conduction in proteins
  • Redox processes at solid/liquid interfaces

Have a look at our recent papers:

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“Machine learning the electric field response of condensed phase systems using perturbed neural network potentials”

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“Disorder-Induced Transition from Transient Quantum Delocalization to Charge Carrier Hopping Conduction in a Nonfullerene Acceptor Material”

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“Shallow conductance decay along the heme array of a single tetra-heme protein wire”

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“Ultrafast Electronic Coupling Estimators: Neural Networks versus Physics-Based Approaches”

Giannini_Nature_Mat_2023

“Transiently delocalized states enhance hole mobility in organic molecular semiconductors”

Futera-2023-JPCL

“Tunneling-to-Hopping Transition in Multiheme Cytochrome Bioelectronic Junctions”

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Recent News

Sep 24: Our paper on (E-field) Perturbed Neural Network Potentials is accepted in Nature Communications - congrats Kit and Philipp!

Sep 24: Kit selected to give a talk on machine learning molecular dynamics with electric fields at the Computational Molecular Science (CMS) conference in Warwick

Mar 24: EXCITING! We won an ERC Advanced Grant EXCITING: New Horizons in Excited State Dynamics in Organic Electronic Materials: Better, Larger, Faster

Dec 23: Jan passed his PhD viva with flying colours - congrats Dr Elsner!

Sep 23: Another feat with FOB-SH - showing how insulating groups increase charge mobility of organic molecular crystals - special thanks to Samuele, David Beljonne (Mons) and Mischa Bonn's Team (Max Planck Institute). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-023-01664-4

Jun 23: Big welcome to Filip Ivanovic who will join us this summer before starting a PhD in October.

May 23: Jan wins joint 1st prize for his talk at the 2023 TYC Student Day - Congrats!!

Oct 22: A warm welcome to our new PhD students Aaron, Andras and Kit!

Sep 22: Jochen new Head of Condensed Matter & Materials Physics!

Jul 22: Our paper on the excitonic surface hopping method (X-SH) is out, taking FOB-SH to the next level! https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c01928 Thanks to the JPCL Editorial team for high-speed publication in < 4 weeks from submission.

Jul 22: Jochen was elected as a Fellow of The Institute of Physics (FInstP)

May 22: Chris successfully defends his PhD thesis - well done, Dr Ahart!

May 22: Jan wins a prize for his poster entitled "Temperature Dependence of Charge Mobility in Rubrene from Fragment Orbital-Based Surface Hopping" at the Thomas Young Centre student day! Well done, Jan.

Apr 22: Paper accepted in Nature Communication! Sam and Wei-Tao show how quantum delocalization boosts exciton transport in molecular organic semiconductors, thanks also to Lorenzo, Daniele and Antoine for your critical input! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-30308-5

Mar 22: Our latest paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society provides new insight into charge transport in hematite - well done Chris!

Mar 22: Big welcome to Yucheng Xu who is visiting from Cambridge. Exciting to have an experimentalist among us!

Mar 22: Upcoming Research Seminar in the beautiful English country side: https://blumberger.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/program-Chicheley-.pdf

Feb 22: Our take on charge transport in organics - the non-adiabatic dynamics perspective: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.accounts.1c00675   

Nov 21: Samuele wins the Marshall Stoneham Prize for his PhD thesis! Well deserved, Samuele!

Nov 21: Big welcome to Nora Gildemeister who joins our group as a guest from the University of Cologne for a couple of months.

Oct 21: Big welcome to Ke Wang who joins our group for an undergraduate project within his Physics degree course.

Sep 21: Matt's paper on the impact of crystallinity on charge carrier transport is out in Advanced Materials - quantum delocalization even in disordered semiconductors, FOB-SH at its best - well done all!

Sep 21: Our paper on Nanosecond Electron Transfer in Multi-heme Proteins is published - a true tour de force with electrochemistry and spectroscopy collaborators Julea Butt and Steve Meech - well done Xiaojing!

Sep 21: We are slowly returning to UCL - good to see faces, masked but real!

Jul 21: We have another Doctor this year: Congratulations, Matt!

Jun 21: Our IWOM workshop pulls in the crowds - 200 attendees!