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Rice University

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The structure of an aminocyanine molecule (a molecular jackhammer) overlaid on top of the calculated molecular plasmon by TD-DFT theory, with the characteristic symmetrical body and long “side arm.”

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(Image courtesy of Ciceron Ayala-Orozco/Rice University)

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