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A density functional theory (DFT) study of the supramolecular dimer formed by a 8-unit oligomer of the poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and the fullerene derivative [6,6]-phenyl-C 61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) is presented. A dispersion-corrected exchangecorrelation potential was used to afford for the long-range van der Waals interactions. Our calculations predict two stable isomers in which the P3HT 8-mer forms a U-shaped structure surrounding the PCBM. From time-dependent DFT calculations it was determined that the maximum absorption intensity of the P3HT-PCBM dimer undergoes a blue-shift of about 80nm with respect to isolated the P3HT oligomer in qualitative agreement with the experimental facts.

We introduce relativistic density functional theory (DFT) calculations on the gold cluster complexes (cluster-molecule-cluster) Au4-S-CnH2n-S'-Au4' (n=2-5). The structural, electronic and relativistic (ZORA) Bader's quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM) properties of the two lowest-energy complex isomers were computed as a function of the alkanedithiol size (n). The lowest-energy isomer is a triplet spin state independently of the complex size. According to QTAIM, the Au-Au and S-Au bonds are classified as closed shell (non-covalent) type. The HOMO-LUMO gap of the cluster complexes shows a zigzag behavior typical of gold nanoclusters with respect to the size of the alkanedithiol chain (n).