Essential challenges and new opportunities in the investigation of excited state structure and dynamics for complex systems
This paper presented a summary based on the lectures and discussions from the symposium on"Excited-State Structures and Dynamic Processes of Complex Systems"sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC).We mainly focus on the electronic structures and dynamic processes in the study of excited states of complex systems.Firstly,we introduce the latest research progress in the field of excited states of complex systems and the excited-state issues in important optoelectronic materials such as organic small molecules/polymers and quantum dots.Then,the development trends in the field of excited-state studies of complex systems are discussed.We further proposed a number of essential challenges and new opportunities in the field for future study,namely,theoretical method developments for the excited-state electronic structure of complex systems,simulation algorithms of exciton dynamics for complex systems,general purpose simulation software for excited-state studies,design strategies of synthesis and characterization techniques for excited-state materials.Finally,some key scientific problems that urgently need to be addressed are summarized,and some strategic suggestions for NSFC to strengthen support for such research fields are proposed.
excited states of complex systemsorganic small molecules/polymersquantum dotselectronic structure and dynamicsoptoelectronic applications