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Marcus Elstner is affiliated with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on materials science, with a significant number of publications in materials chemistry and related subfields. The specialized areas of study include atomic and molecular physics and optics, electrical and electronic engineering, molecular biology, and physical and theoretical chemistry.

The topics covered by Elstner's work encompass several distinct areas:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
  • Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies

Elstner has contributed extensively to scientific literature, with publications in multiple frequent venues. These include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Chemistry - A European Journal

Recent papers authored by Elstner and collaborators detail various aspects of computational chemistry and molecular dynamics. Notable examples include:

  • "DFTB+, a software package for efficient approximate density functional theory based atomistic simulations" (2020) published in The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • "Benchmark and performance of long-range corrected time-dependent density functional tight binding (LC-TD-DFTB) on rhodopsins and light-harvesting complexes" (2020) published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • "DFTB/MM Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the FMO Light-Harvesting Complex" (2020) published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • "Charge and Exciton Transfer Simulations Using Machine-Learned Hamiltonians" (2020) published in Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
  • "Multiscale QM/MM molecular dynamics simulations of the trimeric major light-harvesting complex II" (2021) published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

The scientist collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Farhad Ghalami
  • Michael Mastalerz
  • Frank Röminger
  • Lucas Ueberricke
  • Maja Gruden

Elstner has also authored at least one book published by Springer Nature, titled "Introduction to Statistical Thermodynamics" (2024).

Best Publications

  • Self-consistent-charge density-functional tight-binding method for simulations of complex materials properties

    M. Elstner;M. Elstner;D. Porezag;G. Jungnickel;J. Elsner

  • The retinal conformation and its environment in rhodopsin in light of a new 2.2 A crystal structure

    Tetsuji Okada;Minoru Sugihara;Ana-Nicoleta Bondar;Ana-Nicoleta Bondar;Marcus Elstner

  • Microbial and animal rhodopsins: structures, functions, and molecular mechanisms.

    Oliver P. Ernst;David Thomas Lodowski;Marcus Elstner;Peter Hegemann

  • Hydrogen bonding and stacking interactions of nucleic acid base pairs: A density-functional-theory based treatment

    Marcus Elstner;Pavel Hobza;Thomas Frauenheim;Sándor Suhai

  • DFTB3: Extension of the self-consistent-charge density-functional tight-binding method (SCC-DFTB).

    Michael Gaus;Qiang Cui;Marcus Elstner

  • DFTB+, a software package for efficient approximate density functional theory based atomistic simulations

    B. Hourahine;B. Aradi;V. Blum;F. Bonafé

  • Parametrization and Benchmark of DFTB3 for Organic Molecules

    Michael Gaus;Michael Gaus;Albrecht Goez;Marcus Elstner

  • A QM/MM Implementation of the Self-Consistent Charge Density Functional Tight Binding (SCC-DFTB) Method

    Qiang Cui;Marcus Elstner;Efthimios Kaxiras;and Thomas Frauenheim

  • Atomistic simulations of complex materials: ground-state and excited-state properties

    Thomas Frauenheim;Gotthard Seifert;Marcus Elstner;Thomas Niehaus

  • The SCC-DFTB method and its application to biological systems

    M. Elstner;M. Elstner

  • Density functional tight binding.

    Marcus Elstner;Gotthard Seifert

  • Semiempirical Quantum Mechanical Methods for Noncovalent Interactions for Chemical and Biochemical Applications

    Anders S. Christensen;Tomáš Kubař;Qiang Cui;Marcus Elstner

  • Tight-binding approach to time-dependent density-functional response theory

    Thomas A. Niehaus;S. Suhai;F. Della Sala;P. Lugli

  • Intercalators. 1. Nature of Stacking Interactions between Intercalators (Ethidium, Daunomycin, Ellipticine, and 4‘,6-Diaminide-2-phenylindole) and DNA Base Pairs. Ab Initio Quantum Chemical, Density Functional Theory, and Empirical Potential Study

    David Reha;Martin Kabelac;Filip Ryjacek;Jiri Sponer

  • Extension of the Self-Consistent-Charge Density-Functional Tight-Binding Method: Third-Order Expansion of the Density Functional Theory Total Energy and Introduction of a Modified Effective Coulomb Interaction

    Yang Yang;Haibo Yu;Darrin York;Qiang Cui

  • Conversion of Channelrhodopsin into a Light-Gated Chloride Channel

    Jonas Wietek;J. Simon Wiegert;Nona Adeishvili;Franziska Schneider

  • Comparison of a QM/MM force field and molecular mechanics force fields in simulations of alanine and glycine “dipeptides” (Ace‐Ala‐Nme and Ace‐Gly‐Nme) in water in relation to the problem of modeling the unfolded peptide backbone in solution

    Hao Hu;Marcus Elstner;Jan Hermans

  • Parameterization of DFTB3/3OB for Sulfur and Phosphorus for Chemical and Biological Applications.

    Michael Gaus;Xiya Lu;Marcus Elstner;Qiang Cui

  • Development of effective quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) methods for complex biological processes.

    Demian Riccardi;Patricia Schaefer;Yang Yang;Haibo Yu

  • Parameterization of the DFTB3 method for Br, Ca, Cl, F, I, K, and Na in organic and biological systems.

    Maximilian Kubillus;Tomáš Kubař;Michael Gaus;Jan Řezáč

  • Calculating absorption shifts for retinal proteins: Computational challenges

    Wanko M;Hoffmann M;Strodel P;Koslowski A

Frequent Co-Authors

Qiang Cui
Qiang Cui Boston University
Thomas Frauenheim
Thomas Frauenheim University of Bremen
Sándor Suhai
Sándor Suhai German Cancer Research Center
Jeremy C. Smith
Jeremy C. Smith University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Ulrich Kleinekathöfer
Ulrich Kleinekathöfer Jacobs University
Peter Hegemann
Peter Hegemann Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Efthimios Kaxiras
Efthimios Kaxiras Harvard University
Paolo Lugli
Paolo Lugli Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

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