McGill Chemical Society Seminar Series- Andrew Musser: Embrace the darkness: From singlet fission to exciton-polaritons

Polaritons are increasingly touted as a promising tool to ‘rewrite’ the functional behavior of molecular systems. Polaritons are mixed states formed from the hybridization of molecular transition dipoles with a confined electromagnetic field. Originally the purview of ultra-cold physics, when this concept is applied to molecular vibrational or electronic absorption transitions polaritons can be attained at room temperature.