Assessment of Explicit and Implicit Solvation Models for Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties of <i>Para</i> -Nitroaniline in Three Different Solvents
response properties, enabling direct comparison of results obtained at different theoretical levels. For nearly all models, a computational procedure can be chosen to achieve a fair level of mutual agreement up to first hyperpolarizabilities. Notably, the RLF approach shows particularly good performance, enabling fast screening of large molecular trajectories while providing L&NLO properties that can be directly compared with experimental measurements. The study further highlights several implementation issues and methodological limitations, including the treatment of higher multipole contributions (IEF-PCM), the role of property distributions in local-field evaluation (RLF), the implementation of effective field factors in bulk environments (PE), and practical limitations on cluster size in semicontinuum approaches (SCA), all of which can severely affect predicted L&NLO properties.
Authors
- Heribert Reis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6382-5948)
- Tomáš Hrivnák (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6034-8955)
Institutions
- VSB - Technical University of Ostrava (CZ)
- Polymer Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SK)
- National Hellenic Research Foundation (GR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
- Published
- 2026-07-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.6c01326
- Primary Topic
- Nonlinear Optical Materials Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00