Led by Associate Professor Jeunghoon Lee. The team studies how energy is transferred between molecules with as little energy loss as possible using synthetic DNA templates. Unlike in the human genome, where the combinations of the four base pairs are used to store information in DNA, qDNA uses DNA as a molecular scaffold. To study how the quantum information is being preserved and manipulated between dye molecules, Lee and his team use these four base pairs like an extremely tiny, nano-scale “Lego” set to organize the aforementioned dyes into desired frameworks, or dye aggregates.
- Synthesis, steady state optical characterization, and Frenkel/Molecular Aggregate modeling of:
- DNA template engineering
- Dye aggregates to examine the extent of exciton delocalization and the strength of exciton coupling, Jm,n
- Dye Structure/property relationships on aggregation and Jm,n and Km,n