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Peter Saalfrank

Peter Saalfrank

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Chemistry

D-Index
54
Citations
10634
World Ranking
12594
National Ranking
926

Overview

Peter Saalfrank is affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Germany and specializes in research areas spanning Physics and Astronomy as well as Materials Science. Their scholarly output includes significant work in subfields such as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics; Materials Chemistry; Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment; Physical and Theoretical Chemistry; and Spectroscopy.

Their major research topics address advanced chemical physics studies, spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies, strong light-matter interactions, laser-matter interactions and applications, thermal radiation and cooling technologies, photochemistry and electron transfer studies, and advanced photocatalysis techniques.

Recent published papers exemplify this diverse scientific focus. These include:

  • Protonated Imine-Linked Covalent Organic Frameworks for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution (2021) in Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Constitutional isomerism of the linkages in donor-acceptor covalent organic frameworks and its impact on photocatalysis (2022) in Nature Communications
  • Following excited-state chemical shifts in molecular ultrafast x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (2022) in Nature Communications
  • Ground state properties and infrared spectra of anharmonic vibrational polaritons of small molecules in cavities (2021) in The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • A Dual pH- and Light-Responsive Spiropyran-Based Surfactant: Investigations on Its Switching Behavior and Remote Control over Emulsion Stability (2022) in Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Frequent collaborators include Evgenii Titov, Eric W. Fischer, Christopher Penschke, Markus Gühr, and Dennis Mayer.

Publications have appeared primarily in specialized scientific journals such as:

  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Best Publications

  • Aggregation in a high-mobility n-type low-bandgap copolymer with implications on semicrystalline morphology.

    Robert Steyrleuthner;Marcel Schubert;Ian Howard;Bastian Klaumünzer

  • ortho-Fluoroazobenzenes: visible light switches with very long-lived Z isomers

    Christopher Knie;Manuel Utecht;Fangli Zhao;Hannes Kulla

  • Protonated Imine-Linked Covalent Organic Frameworks for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution

    Jin Yang;Amitava Acharjya;Meng-Yang Ye;Jabor Rabeah

  • Quantum Chemical Investigation of Thermal Cis-to-Trans Isomerization of Azobenzene Derivatives: Substituent Effects, Solvent Effects, and Comparison to Experimental Data

    Jadranka Dokić;Marcel Gothe;Jonas Wirth;Maike V. Peters

  • Constitutional isomerism of the linkages in donor–acceptor covalent organic frameworks and its impact on photocatalysis

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  • The multiconfiguration time-dependent Hartree-Fock method for quantum chemical calculations.

    Mathias Nest;Tillmann Klamroth;Peter Saalfrank

  • Theory of photoinduced surface reactions of admolecules

    Hua Guo;Peter Saalfrank;Tamar Seideman

  • Time-dependent configuration-interaction calculations of laser-pulse-driven many-electron dynamics: Controlled dipole switching in lithium cyanide

    Pascal Krause;Tillmann Klamroth;Peter Saalfrank

  • Quantum dynamical approach to ultrafast molecular desorption from surfaces.

    Peter Saalfrank

  • Adsorption and photocatalytic splitting of water on graphitic carbon nitride: a combined first principles and semiempirical study

    Jonas Wirth;Rainer Neumann;Markus Antonietti;Peter Saalfrank

  • Quantum Chemical Calculation of Excited States of Flavin-Related Molecules

    Christian Neiss;Peter Saalfrank;Maja Parac;Stefan Grimme

  • Quantum dynamics of bond breaking in a dissipative environment: Indirect and direct photodesorption of neutrals from metals

    Peter Saalfrank;Ronnie Kosloff

  • Electrocatalytic Z → E Isomerization of Azobenzenes.

    Alexis Goulet-Hanssens;Manuel Utecht;Dragos Mutruc;Evgenii Titov

  • Molecular response properties from explicitly time-dependent configuration interaction methods.

    Pascal Krause;Tillmann Klamroth;Peter Saalfrank

  • (TD-)DFT Calculation of Vibrational and Vibronic Spectra of Riboflavin in Solution

    Bastian Klaumünzer;Dominik Kröner;Peter Saalfrank

  • On the electronic structure of neutral and ionic azobenzenes and their possible role as surface mounted molecular switches.

    Gernot Füchsel;Tillmann Klamroth;Jadranka Dokić;Peter Saalfrank

  • Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy of Flavin after Optical Excitation

    A. Weigel;A. Dobryakov;B. Klaumünzer;M. Sajadi

  • Stochastic wave packet vs. direct density matrix solution of Liouville-von Neumann equations for photodesorption problems

    Peter Saalfrank

  • Electronic decoupling approach to quantitative photoswitching in linear multiazobenzene architectures

    David Bléger;Jadranka Dokić;Maike V. Peters;Lutz Grubert

  • Density matrix description of laser-induced hot electron mediated photodesorption of NO from Pt(111)

    Peter Saalfrank;Roi Baer;Ronnie Kosloff

  • Surface oscillator models for dissociative sticking of molecular hydrogen at non-rigid surfaces

    Michael Dohle;Peter Saalfrank

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Hecht
Stefan Hecht Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Martin Wolf
Martin Wolf Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Jörn Manz
Jörn Manz Freie Universität Berlin
Wolfgang E. S. Unger
Wolfgang E. S. Unger Federal Institute For Materials Research and Testing
Ronnie Kosloff
Ronnie Kosloff Hebrew University of Jerusalem
William H. Miller
William H. Miller University of California, Berkeley
Hans Lischka
Hans Lischka Texas Tech University
Markus Antonietti
Markus Antonietti Max Planck Society
Vlasta Bonačić-Koutecký
Vlasta Bonačić-Koutecký University of Split
Herschel Rabitz
Herschel Rabitz Princeton University

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