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Jasper Knoester

Jasper Knoester

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Chemistry

D-Index
62
Citations
11945
World Ranking
8960
National Ranking
184

Overview

Jasper Knoester is a researcher affiliated with Leiden University in the Netherlands. Their work primarily spans the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Materials Science, focusing on subfields such as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The main topics addressed in Knoester's research include Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies, Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry, Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research, Perovskite Materials and Applications, Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials, and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials.

Knoester has published extensively in a variety of scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
  • Physical review. B./Physical review. B
  • Chemical Science

Recent scientific papers authored or co-authored by Knoester include:

  • Plasmon-assisted two-photon absorption in a semiconductor quantum dot-metallic nanoshell composite, 2020, Physical review. B./Physical review. B
  • Multiscale modeling of molecular structure and optical properties of complex supramolecular aggregates, 2020, Chemical Science
  • Ultrafast Excitation Energy Transfer Dynamics in the LHCII-CP29-CP24 Subdomain of Plant Photosystem II, 2022, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Molecular versus Excitonic Disorder in Individual Artificial Light-Harvesting Systems, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Structural Disorder as the Origin of Optical Properties and Spectral Dynamics in Squaraine Nano-Aggregates, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Knoester has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Thomas L. C. Jansen, Hoàng Long Nguyễn, Thanh Nhut, Kai Zhong, and Howe-Siang Tan.

Best Publications

  • Optical properties of disordered molecular aggregates: a numerical study

    Henk Fidder;Jasper Knoester;Douwe A. Wiersma

  • Two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy of antiparallel beta-sheet secondary structure.

    N Demirdoven;CM Cheatum;HS Chung;M Khalil

  • Two-dimensional spectroscopy of a molecular dimer unveils the effects of vibronic coupling on exciton coherences.

    Alexei Halpin;Philip J. M. Johnson;Roel Tempelaar;R. Scott Murphy

  • SUPERRADIANT EMISSION AND OPTICAL DEPHASING IN J-AGGREGATES

    Henk Fidder;Jasper Knoester;Douwe A. Wiersma

  • A transferable electrostatic map for solvation effects on amide I vibrations and its application to linear and two-dimensional spectroscopy

    Thomas la Cour Jansen;Jasper Knoester

  • Uniform exciton fluorescence from individual molecular nanotubes immobilized on solid substrates

    Dörthe M. Eisele;Jasper Knoester;Stefan Kirstein;Jürgen P. Rabe

  • Identification and characterization of diverse coherences in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex.

    Erling Thyrhaug;Erling Thyrhaug;Roel Tempelaar;Marcelo J. P. Alcocer;Karel Žídek;Karel Žídek

  • From Atomistic Modeling to Excitation Transfer and Two-Dimensional Spectra of the FMO Light-Harvesting Complex

    Carsten Olbrich;Thomas L. C. Jansen;Jörg Liebers;Mortaza Aghtar

  • Modeling the amide I bands of small peptides.

    Thomas la Cour Jansen;Arend G. Dijkstra;Tim M. Watson;Jonathan D. Hirst

  • Nonadiabatic effects in the two-dimensional infrared spectra of peptides: Application to alanine dipeptide

    Thomas la Cour Jansen;Jasper Knoester

  • Observation of the one‐exciton to two‐exciton transition in a J aggregate

    Henk Fidder;Jasper Knoester;Douwe A. Wiersma

  • Nonlinear optical line shapes of disordered molecular aggregates: Motional narrowing and the effect of intersite correlations

    Jasper Knoester

  • Utilizing redox-chemistry to elucidate the nature of exciton transitions in supramolecular dye nanotubes

    D. M. Eisele;C. W. Cone;E. A. Bloemsma;S. M. Vlaming

  • Structure, Spectroscopy, and Microscopic Model of Tubular Carbocyanine Dye Aggregates

    C Didraga;A Pugzlys;PR Hania;H von Berlepsch

  • Optical Properties of Helical Cylindrical Molecular Aggregates: The Homogeneous Limit

    Cătălin Didraga;Joost A. Klugkist;Jasper Knoester

  • Signatures of beta-sheet secondary structures in linear and two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy.

    Christopher M. Cheatum;Andrei Tokmakoff;Jasper Knoester

  • Conformational Disorder and Ultrafast Exciton Relaxation in PPV-family Conjugated Polymers

    Tieneke E. Dykstra;Emmanuelle Hennebicq;David Beljonne;Johannes Gierschner;Johannes Gierschner

  • Förster transfer and the local optical density of states in erbium-doped silica

    M. J. A. de Dood;M. J. A. de Dood;J. Knoester;A. Tip;A. Polman

  • Exciton Spectra and the Microscopic Structure of Self-Assembled Porphyrin Nanotubes

    S. M. Vlaming;R. Augulis;Marc Stuart;Jasper Knoester

  • Pump-Probe Spectroscopy and the Exciton Delocalization Length in Molecular Aggregates

    Lisette D. Bakalis;Jasper Knoester

  • Local energetic disorder in molecular aggregates probed by the one-exciton to two-exciton transition

    James R. Durrant;Jasper Knoester;Douwe A. Wiersma

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrei Tokmakoff
Andrei Tokmakoff University of Chicago
Shaul Mukamel
Shaul Mukamel University of California, Irvine
R. J. Dwayne Miller
R. J. Dwayne Miller University of Toronto
D. I. Khomskii
D. I. Khomskii University of Cologne
Donald A. Bryant
Donald A. Bryant Pennsylvania State University
Douwe A. Wiersma
Douwe A. Wiersma University of Groningen
Frank C. Spano
Frank C. Spano Temple University
James R. Durrant
James R. Durrant Imperial College London
Jürgen P. Rabe
Jürgen P. Rabe Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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