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Jones AC, Kearns NM, Ho JJ, Flach JT, Zanni MT. Impact of non-equilibrium molecular packings on singlet fission in microcrystals observed using 2D white-light microscopy. Nat Chem 2019; 12:40-47. [PMID: 31792384 DOI: 10.1038/s41557-019-0368-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2018] [Accepted: 10/08/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Singlet fission, the process of splitting a singlet exciton into two triplet excitons, has been proposed as a mechanism for improving the efficiency of future photovoltaic devices. In organic semiconductors exhibiting singlet fission, the geometric relationship between molecules plays an important role by setting the intermolecular couplings that determine the system energetics. Here, we spatially image TIPS-pentacene microcrystals using ultrafast two-dimensional white-light microscopy and discover a low-energy singlet state sparsely distributed throughout the microcrystals, with higher concentrations at edges and morphological defects. The spectra of these singlet states are consistent with slip-stacked molecular geometries and increased charge-transfer couplings. The picosecond-timescale kinetics of these low-energy singlet states matches that of the correlated triplet-pair state, which we attribute to singlet/triplet-pair interconversion at these sites. Our observations support the conclusion that small populations of geometries with favourable energetics can play outsized roles in singlet fission processes.
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- Andrew C Jones
- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA.
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Achieving spin-triplet exciton transfer between silicon and molecular acceptors for photon upconversion. Nat Chem 2019; 12:137-144. [PMID: 31792389 DOI: 10.1038/s41557-019-0385-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2019] [Accepted: 10/28/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Inorganic semiconductor nanocrystals interfaced with spin-triplet exciton-accepting organic molecules have emerged as promising materials for converting incoherent long-wavelength light into the visible range. However, these materials to date have made exclusive use of nanocrystals containing toxic elements, precluding their use in biological or environmentally sensitive applications. Here, we address this challenge by chemically functionalizing non-toxic silicon nanocrystals with triplet-accepting anthracene ligands. Photoexciting these structures drives spin-triplet exciton transfer from silicon to anthracene through a single 15 ns Dexter energy transfer step with a nearly 50% yield. When paired with 9,10-diphenylanthracene emitters, these particles readily upconvert 488-640 nm photons to 425 nm violet light with efficiencies as high as 7 ± 0.9% and can be readily incorporated into aqueous micelles for biological use. Our demonstration of spin-triplet exciton transfer from silicon to molecular triplet acceptors can critically enable new technologies for solar energy conversion, quantum information and near-infrared driven photocatalysis.
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Medina DP, Papadopoulos I, Lavarda G, Gotfredsen H, Rami PR, Tykwinski RR, Rodríguez-Morgade MS, Guldi DM, Torres T. Light-harvesting porphyrazines to enable intramolecular singlet fission. NANOSCALE 2019; 11:22286-22292. [PMID: 31730142 DOI: 10.1039/c9nr08161e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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A porphyrazine featuring complementary absorption to a pentacene dimer was chosen to fill the absorption gap of the latter in the range of 450 to 600 nm to realize panchromatic absorption through the visible region out to ca. 700 nm. Of even greater relevance is the quantitative intramolecular Förster resonance energy transfer (i-FRET) to funnel energy to the pentacene moieties, where efficient intramolecular singlet fission (i-SF) converts the singlet excited state into the corresponding triplet excited states. Remarkably, the triplet quantum yield either via direct excitation or via indirect i-FRET is up to 200% ± 20% in polar solvents.
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- Diana-Paola Medina
- Departamento de Química Orgánica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain.
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Felter K, Caselli VM, Günbaş DD, Savenije TJ, Grozema FC. Interplay between Charge Carrier Mobility, Exciton Diffusion, Crystal Packing, and Charge Separation in Perylene Diimide-Based Heterojunctions. ACS APPLIED ENERGY MATERIALS 2019; 2:8010-8021. [PMID: 31788664 PMCID: PMC6880777 DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.9b01490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2019] [Accepted: 10/03/2019] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Two of the key parameters that characterize the usefulness of organic semiconductors for organic or hybrid organic/inorganic solar cells are the mobility of charges and the diffusion length of excitons. Both parameters are strongly related to the supramolecular organization in the material. In this work we have investigated the relation between the solid-state molecular packing and the exciton diffusion length, charge carrier mobility, and charge carrier separation yield using two perylene diimide (PDI) derivatives which differ in their substitution. We have used the time-resolved microwave photoconductivity technique and measured charge carrier mobilities of 0.32 and 0.02 cm2/(Vs) and determined exciton diffusion lengths of 60 and 18 nm for octyl- and bulky hexylheptyl-imide substituted PDIs, respectively. This diffusion length is independent of substrate type and aggregate domain size. The differences in charge carrier mobility and exciton diffusion length clearly reflect the effect of solid-state packing of PDIs on their optoelectronic properties and show that significant improvements can be obtained by effectively controlling the solid-state packing.
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- Kevin
M. Felter
- Optoelectronic Materials
Section, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HS Delft, The Netherlands
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- Optoelectronic Materials
Section, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HS Delft, The Netherlands
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- Optoelectronic Materials
Section, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HS Delft, The Netherlands
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- Optoelectronic Materials
Section, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HS Delft, The Netherlands
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Felter K, Grozema FC. Singlet Fission in Crystalline Organic Materials: Recent Insights and Future Directions. J Phys Chem Lett 2019; 10:7208-7214. [PMID: 31689105 PMCID: PMC6875870 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b00754] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2019] [Accepted: 11/05/2019] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Singlet fission (SF) involves the conversion of one excited singlet state into two lower excited triplet states and has received considerable renewed attention over the past decade. This Perspective highlights recent developments and emerging concepts of SF in solid-state crystalline materials. Recent experiments showed the crucial role of vibrational modes in speeding up SF, and theoretical modeling has started to define an optimal energetic landscape and intermolecular orientation of chromophores for highly efficient singlet fission. A critical analysis of these developments leads to directions for future research to eventually find singlet fission chromophores with excellent optoelectronic properties.
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- Kevin
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- Optoelectronic Materials
Section, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HS Delft, The Netherlands
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- Optoelectronic Materials
Section, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HS Delft, The Netherlands
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Jones AC, Kearns NM, Bohlmann Kunz M, Flach JT, Zanni MT. Multidimensional Spectroscopy on the Microscale: Development of a Multimodal Imaging System Incorporating 2D White-Light Spectroscopy, Broadband Transient Absorption, and Atomic Force Microscopy. J Phys Chem A 2019; 123:10824-10836. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b09099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- Andrew C. Jones
- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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Basel BS, Young RM, Krzyaniak MD, Papadopoulos I, Hetzer C, Gao Y, La Porte NT, Phelan BT, Clark T, Tykwinski RR, Wasielewski MR, Guldi DM. Influence of the heavy-atom effect on singlet fission: a study of platinum-bridged pentacene dimers. Chem Sci 2019; 10:11130-11140. [PMID: 32206262 PMCID: PMC7069226 DOI: 10.1039/c9sc04410h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2019] [Accepted: 10/20/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Two platinum-bridged pentacene dimers undergo efficient singlet fission to form a correlated triplet pair (T1T1). The internal heavy-atom effect of the platinum allows for 1(T1T1)–3(T1T1) mixing leading to the formation of mainly (T1S0).
The process of singlet fission (SF) produces two triplet excited states (T1 + T1) from one singlet excited exciton (S1) and a molecule in its ground state (S0). It, thus, possesses the potential to boost the solar cell efficiency above the thermodynamic Shockley–Queisser limit of 33%. A key intermediate in the SF mechanism is the singlet correlated triplet pair state 1(T1T1). This state is of great relevance, as its formation is spin-allowed and, therefore, very fast and efficient. Three fundamentally different pathways to formation of 1(T1T1) have been documented so far. The factors that influence which mechanism is associated with which chromophore, however, remain largely unknown. In order to harvest both triplet excitons independently, a decorrelation of the correlated triplet pair state to two individual triplets is required. This second step of the SF process implies a change in the total spin quantum number. In the case of a dimer, this is usually only possible if the coupling between the two pentacenes is sufficiently weak. In this study, we present two platinum-bridged pentacene dimers in which the pentacenes are coupled strongly, so that spin-decorrelation yielding (T1 + T1) was initially expected to be outcompeted by triplet–triplet annihilation (TTA) to the ground state. Both platinum-bridged pentacene dimers undergo quantitative formation of the (T1T1) state on a picosecond timescale that is unaffected by the internal heavy-atom effect of the platinum. Instead of TTA of (T1T1) to the ground state, the internal heavy-atom effect allows for 1(T1T1)–3(T1T1) and 1(T1T1)–5(T1T1) mixing and, thus, triggers subsequent TTA to the (T1S0) state and minor formation of (T1 + T1). A combination of transient absorption and transient IR spectroscopy is applied to investigate the mechanism of the (T1T1) formation in both dimers. Using a combination of experiment and quantum chemical calculations, we are able to observe a transition from the CT-mediated to the direct SF mechanism and identify relevant factors that influence the mechanism that dominates SF in pentacene. Moreover, a combination of time-resolved optical and electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopic data allows us to develop a kinetic model that describes the effect of enhanced spin–orbit couplings on the correlated triplet pair state.
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- Bettina S Basel
- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy & Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials (ICMM) , Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) , Egerlandstrasse 3 , 91058 Erlangen , Germany .
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern (ISEN) , Northwestern University , Evanston , IL 60208-3113 , USA .
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern (ISEN) , Northwestern University , Evanston , IL 60208-3113 , USA .
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy & Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials (ICMM) , Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) , Egerlandstrasse 3 , 91058 Erlangen , Germany .
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy & Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials (ICMM) , Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) , Nikolaus-Fiebiger-Strasse 10 , 91058 Erlangen , Germany
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Alberta , Edmonton , Alberta T6G 2G2 , Canada .
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern (ISEN) , Northwestern University , Evanston , IL 60208-3113 , USA .
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern (ISEN) , Northwestern University , Evanston , IL 60208-3113 , USA .
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy & Computer-Chemistry-Center (CCC) , Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) , Nägelsbachstrasse 25 , 91052 Erlangen , Germany .
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Alberta , Edmonton , Alberta T6G 2G2 , Canada .
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern (ISEN) , Northwestern University , Evanston , IL 60208-3113 , USA .
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy & Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials (ICMM) , Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) , Egerlandstrasse 3 , 91058 Erlangen , Germany .
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Alvertis AM, Lukman S, Hele TJH, Fuemmeler EG, Feng J, Wu J, Greenham NC, Chin AW, Musser AJ. Switching between Coherent and Incoherent Singlet Fission via Solvent-Induced Symmetry Breaking. J Am Chem Soc 2019; 141:17558-17570. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b05561] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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- Antonios M. Alvertis
- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J. J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR), 2 Fusionopolis Way, Singapore 138634, Singapore
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- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J. J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, 117543 Singapore
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- Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, 117543 Singapore
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- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J. J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
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- CNRS & Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, Sorbonne Université, 4 place Jussieu boite courrier 840, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Hounsfield Road, Sheffield S3 7RH, U.K
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Swick SM, Gebraad T, Jones L, Fu B, Aldrich TJ, Kohlstedt KL, Schatz GC, Facchetti A, Marks TJ. Building Blocks for High‐Efficiency Organic Photovoltaics: Interplay of Molecular, Crystal, and Electronic Properties in Post‐Fullerene ITIC Ensembles. Chemphyschem 2019; 20:2608-2626. [DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201900793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2019] [Revised: 09/13/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- Steven M. Swick
- Department of Chemistry Northwestern University Evanston Illinois 60208 United States
- Center for Light Energy Activated Redox Processes Evanston Illinois 60208 United States
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- Department of Chemistry Northwestern University Evanston Illinois 60208 United States
- Center for Light Energy Activated Redox Processes Evanston Illinois 60208 United States
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- Department of Chemistry Northwestern University Evanston Illinois 60208 United States
- Center for Light Energy Activated Redox Processes Evanston Illinois 60208 United States
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- Department of Chemistry Northwestern University Evanston Illinois 60208 United States
- Center for Light Energy Activated Redox Processes Evanston Illinois 60208 United States
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- Department of Chemistry Northwestern University Evanston Illinois 60208 United States
- Center for Light Energy Activated Redox Processes Evanston Illinois 60208 United States
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- Department of Chemistry Northwestern University Evanston Illinois 60208 United States
- Center for Light Energy Activated Redox Processes Evanston Illinois 60208 United States
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- Department of Chemistry Northwestern University Evanston Illinois 60208 United States
- Center for Light Energy Activated Redox Processes Evanston Illinois 60208 United States
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- Department of Chemistry Northwestern University Evanston Illinois 60208 United States
- Center for Light Energy Activated Redox Processes Evanston Illinois 60208 United States
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- Department of Chemistry Northwestern University Evanston Illinois 60208 United States
- Center for Light Energy Activated Redox Processes Evanston Illinois 60208 United States
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Wang L, Wu Y, Liu Y, Wang L, Yao J, Fu H. Morphology independent triplet formation in pentalene films: Singlet fission as the triplet formation mechanism. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:124701. [PMID: 31575178 DOI: 10.1063/1.5097192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Singlet fission (SF), a spin-allowed multiexciton generation process, experienced renewed interest in the last decade due to its potential to increase the efficiency of photovoltaic devices. The hurdles now lie in the limited range of SF-capable materials and demanding morphology requirement for an efficient fission process. Although primary fission to yield triplet pair (1TT) can occur independently of film morphology in intramolecular singlet fission (iSF) materials, the separation of the 1TT state has been shown to be highly dependent on the packing motif and morphologies. In this work, we have demonstrated that both iSF and triplet pair separation processes took place irrelevant of molecular order and/or film morphology in a series of pentalene compounds. With the >180% fission efficiency, the suitable triplet energy levels, and the long lifetime of the triplet excitons, these iSF systems can be integrated into practical photovoltaic application.
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- Long Wang
- Key Laboratory of Interface Science and Engineering in Advanced Materials, Ministry of Education, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Optical Materials and Photonic Devices, Department of Chemistry, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecules Science (BNLMS), State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species and Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecules Science (BNLMS), State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species and Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Optical Materials and Photonic Devices, Department of Chemistry, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Optical Materials and Photonic Devices, Department of Chemistry, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China
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Schmidt D, Stolte M, Süß J, Liess A, Stepanenko V, Würthner F. Protein-like Enwrapped Perylene Bisimide Chromophore as a Bright Microcrystalline Emitter Material. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2019; 58:13385-13389. [PMID: 31329325 PMCID: PMC6772080 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201907618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2019] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Strongly emissive solid-state materials are mandatory components for many emerging optoelectronic technologies, but fluorescence is often quenched in the solid state owing to strong intermolecular interactions. The design of new organic pigments, which retain their optical properties despite their high tendency to crystallize, could overcome such limitations. Herein, we show a new material with monomer-like absorption and emission profiles as well as fluorescence quantum yields over 90 % in its crystalline solid state. The material was synthesized by attaching two bulky tris(4-tert-butylphenyl)phenoxy substituents at the perylene bisimide bay positions. These substituents direct a packing arrangement with full enwrapping of the chromophore and unidirectional chromophore alignment within the crystal lattice to afford optical properties that resemble those of their natural pigment counterparts, in which chromophores are rigidly embedded in protein environments.
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- David Schmidt
- Institut für Organische Chemie & Center for Nanosystems ChemistryUniversität WürzburgAm Hubland97074WürzburgGermany
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- Institut für Organische Chemie & Center for Nanosystems ChemistryUniversität WürzburgAm Hubland97074WürzburgGermany
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- Institut für Organische Chemie & Center for Nanosystems ChemistryUniversität WürzburgAm Hubland97074WürzburgGermany
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- Institut für Organische Chemie & Center for Nanosystems ChemistryUniversität WürzburgAm Hubland97074WürzburgGermany
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- Institut für Organische Chemie & Center for Nanosystems ChemistryUniversität WürzburgAm Hubland97074WürzburgGermany
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- Institut für Organische Chemie & Center for Nanosystems ChemistryUniversität WürzburgAm Hubland97074WürzburgGermany
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Felter KM, Dubey RK, Grozema FC. Relation between molecular packing and singlet fission in thin films of brominated perylenediimides. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:094301. [PMID: 31492067 DOI: 10.1063/1.5110306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Perylene diimides (PDIs) are attractive chromophores that exhibit singlet exciton fission (SF) and have several advantages over traditional SF molecules such as tetracene and pentacene; however, their photophysical properties relating to SF have received only limited attention. In this study, we explore how introduction of bulky bromine atoms in the so-called bay-area PDIs, resulting in a nonplanar structure, affects the solid-state packing and efficiency of singlet fission. We found that changes in the molecular packing have a strong effect on the temperature dependent photoluminescence, expressed as an activation energy. These effects are explained in terms of excimer formation for PDIs without bay-area substitution, which competes with singlet fission. Introduction of bromine atoms in the bay-positions strongly disrupts the solid-state packing leading to strongly reduced excitonic interactions. Surprisingly, these relatively amorphous materials with weak electronic coupling exhibit stronger formation of triplet excited states by SF because the competing excimer formation is suppressed here.
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- Kevin M Felter
- Opto-Electronic Materials Section, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HS Delft, The Netherlands
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- Opto-Electronic Materials Section, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HS Delft, The Netherlands
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- Opto-Electronic Materials Section, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HS Delft, The Netherlands
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Fallon KJ, Budden P, Salvadori E, Ganose AM, Savory CN, Eyre L, Dowland S, Ai Q, Goodlett S, Risko C, Scanlon DO, Kay CWM, Rao A, Friend RH, Musser AJ, Bronstein H. Exploiting Excited-State Aromaticity To Design Highly Stable Singlet Fission Materials. J Am Chem Soc 2019; 141:13867-13876. [PMID: 31381323 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b06346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Singlet fission, the process of forming two triplet excitons from one singlet exciton, is a characteristic reserved for only a handful of organic molecules due to the atypical energetic requirement for low energy excited triplet states. The predominant strategy for achieving such a trait is by increasing ground state diradical character; however, this greatly reduces ambient stability. Herein, we exploit Baird's rule of excited state aromaticity to manipulate the singlet-triplet energy gap and create novel singlet fission candidates. We achieve this through the inclusion of a [4n] 5-membered heterocycle, whose electronic resonance promotes aromaticity in the triplet state, stabilizing its energy relative to the singlet excited state. Using this theory, we design a family of derivatives of indolonaphthyridine thiophene (INDT) with highly tunable excited state energies. Not only do we access novel singlet fission materials, they also exhibit excellent ambient stability, imparted due to the delocalized nature of the triplet excited state. Spin-coated films retained up to 85% activity after several weeks of exposure to oxygen and light, while analogous films of TIPS-pentacene showed full degradation after 4 days, showcasing the excellent stability of this class of singlet fission scaffold. Extension of our theoretical analysis to almost ten thousand candidates reveals an unprecedented degree of tunability and several thousand potential fission-capable candidates, while clearly demonstrating the relationship between triplet aromaticity and singlet-triplet energy gap, confirming this novel strategy for manipulating the exchange energy in organic materials.
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- Kealan J Fallon
- Department of Chemistry , University of Cambridge , Cambridge CB2 1EW , U.K
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- Cavendish Laboratory , University of Cambridge , Cambridge CB3 0HE , U.K
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Turin , Via Pietro Giuria 7 , 10125 Torino , Italy.,London Centre for Nanotechnology , University College London , 17-19 Gordon Street , London WC1H 0AH , U.K
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- Kathleen Lonsdale Materials Chemistry, Department of Chemistry , University College London , 20 Gordon Street , London WC1H 0AJ , U.K.,Thomas Young Centre , University College London , Gower Street , London WC1E 6BT , U.K.,Diamond Light Source Ltd., Diamond House , Harwell Science and Innovation Campus , Oxfordshire OX11 0DE , U.K
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- Kathleen Lonsdale Materials Chemistry, Department of Chemistry , University College London , 20 Gordon Street , London WC1H 0AJ , U.K.,Thomas Young Centre , University College London , Gower Street , London WC1E 6BT , U.K
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- Cavendish Laboratory , University of Cambridge , Cambridge CB3 0HE , U.K
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- Cavendish Laboratory , University of Cambridge , Cambridge CB3 0HE , U.K
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Applied Energy Research , University of Kentucky , Lexington , Kentucky 40506 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Applied Energy Research , University of Kentucky , Lexington , Kentucky 40506 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Applied Energy Research , University of Kentucky , Lexington , Kentucky 40506 , United States
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- Kathleen Lonsdale Materials Chemistry, Department of Chemistry , University College London , 20 Gordon Street , London WC1H 0AJ , U.K.,Thomas Young Centre , University College London , Gower Street , London WC1E 6BT , U.K.,Diamond Light Source Ltd., Diamond House , Harwell Science and Innovation Campus , Oxfordshire OX11 0DE , U.K
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- London Centre for Nanotechnology , University College London , 17-19 Gordon Street , London WC1H 0AH , U.K.,Department of Chemistry , University of Saarland , 66123 Saarbrücken , Germany
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- Cavendish Laboratory , University of Cambridge , Cambridge CB3 0HE , U.K
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- Cavendish Laboratory , University of Cambridge , Cambridge CB3 0HE , U.K
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy , University of Sheffield , Hicks Building, Hounsfield Road , Sheffield S3 7RH , U.K
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Cambridge , Cambridge CB2 1EW , U.K.,Cavendish Laboratory , University of Cambridge , Cambridge CB3 0HE , U.K
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Jue Bae Y, Krzyaniak MD, Majewski MB, Desroches M, Morin JF, Wu YL, Wasielewski MR. Competition between Singlet Fission and Spin-Orbit-Induced Intersystem Crossing in Anthanthrene and Anthanthrone Derivatives. Chempluschem 2019; 84:1432-1438. [PMID: 31944060 DOI: 10.1002/cplu.201900410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2019] [Revised: 08/06/2019] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Singlet and triplet excited-state dynamics of anthanthrene and anthanthrone derivatives in solution are studied. Triisopropylsilyl- (TIPS) or H-terminated ethynyl groups are used to tune the singlet and triplet energies to enable their potential applications in singlet fission and triplet fusion processes. Time-resolved optical and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopies are used to obtain a mechanistic understanding of triplet formation. The anthanthrene derivatives form triplet states efficiently at a rate (ca. 107 s-1 ) comparable to radiative singlet fluorescence processes with approximately 30 % triplet yields, despite their large S1 -T1 energy gap (>1 eV) and the lack of carbonyl groups. In contrast, anthanthrone has a higher triplet yield (50±10 %) with a faster intersystem crossing rate (2.7 × 108 s-1 ) because of the n-π* character of the S1 ←S0 transition. Analysis of time-resolved spin-polarized EPR spectra of these compounds reveals that the triplet states are primarily generated by the spin-orbit-induced intersystem crossing mechanism. However, at high concentrations, the EPR spectrum of the 4,6,10,14-tetrakis(TIPS-ethynyl)anthanthrene triplet state shows a significant contribution from a non-Boltzmann population of the ms =0 spin sublevel, which is characteristic of triplet formation by singlet fission.
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- Youn Jue Bae
- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, Northwestern University, Evanston IL, 60208-3113, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, Northwestern University, Evanston IL, 60208-3113, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Centre for NanoScience Research, Concordia University Montréal, Québec, H4B 1R6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Université Laval Québec, Québec, G1 V 0 A6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, Northwestern University, Evanston IL, 60208-3113, USA.,School of Chemistry, Cardiff University Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, Northwestern University, Evanston IL, 60208-3113, USA
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Schmidt D, Stolte M, Süß J, Liess A, Stepanenko V, Würthner F. Protein‐like Enwrapped Perylene Bisimide Chromophore as a Bright Microcrystalline Emitter Material. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201907618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- David Schmidt
- Institut für Organische Chemie & Center for Nanosystems ChemistryUniversität Würzburg Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg Germany
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- Institut für Organische Chemie & Center for Nanosystems ChemistryUniversität Würzburg Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg Germany
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- Institut für Organische Chemie & Center for Nanosystems ChemistryUniversität Würzburg Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg Germany
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- Institut für Organische Chemie & Center for Nanosystems ChemistryUniversität Würzburg Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg Germany
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- Institut für Organische Chemie & Center for Nanosystems ChemistryUniversität Würzburg Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg Germany
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- Institut für Organische Chemie & Center for Nanosystems ChemistryUniversität Würzburg Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg Germany
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Deng GH, Wei Q, Han J, Qian Y, Luo J, Harutyunyan AR, Chen G, Bian H, Chen H, Rao Y. Vibronic fingerprint of singlet fission in hexacene. J Chem Phys 2019. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5110263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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- Gang-Hua Deng
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Utah State University, Logan, Utah 84322, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an 710119, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Utah State University, Logan, Utah 84322, USA
- School of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Utah State University, Logan, Utah 84322, USA
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- School of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
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- Honda Research Institute USA, Inc., San Jose, California 95134, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an 710119, China
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- Department of Chemistry, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Utah State University, Logan, Utah 84322, USA
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Conrad-Burton FS, Liu T, Geyer F, Costantini R, Schlaus AP, Spencer MS, Wang J, Sánchez RH, Zhang B, Xu Q, Steigerwald ML, Xiao S, Li H, Nuckolls CP, Zhu X. Controlling Singlet Fission by Molecular Contortion. J Am Chem Soc 2019; 141:13143-13147. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b05357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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- Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, United States
- Department of Chemistry, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, United States
- CNR-IOM, AREA Science Park, Basovizza, 34149 Trieste, Italy
- Physics Department, University of Trieste, Via Valerio 2, 34127 Trieste, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, United States
- Department of Chemistry, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, United States
- Department of Chemistry, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, United States
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Bae YJ, Christensen JA, Kang G, Zhou J, Young RM, Wu YL, Van Duyne RP, Schatz GC, Wasielewski MR. Substituent effects on energetics and crystal morphology modulate singlet fission in 9,10-bis(phenylethynyl)anthracenes. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:044501. [PMID: 31370542 DOI: 10.1063/1.5110411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Singlet fission (SF) converts a singlet exciton into two triplet excitons in two or more electronically coupled organic chromophores, which may then be used to increase solar cell efficiency. Many known SF chromophores are unsuitable for device applications due to chemical instability or low triplet state energies. The results described here show that efficient SF occurs in derivatives of 9,10-bis(phenylethynyl)anthracene (BPEA), which is a highly robust and tunable chromophore. Fluoro and methoxy substituents at the 4- and 4'-positions of the BPEA phenyl groups control the intermolecular packing in the crystal structure, which alters the interchromophore electronic coupling, while also changing the SF energetics. The lowest excited singlet state (S1) energy of 4,4'-difluoro-BPEA is higher than that of BPEA so that the increased thermodynamic favorability of SF results in a (16 ± 2 ps)-1 SF rate and a 180% ± 16% triplet yield, which is about an order of magnitude faster than BPEA with a comparable triplet yield. By contrast, 4-fluoro-4'-methoxy-BPEA and 4,4'-dimethoxy-BPEA have slower SF rates, (90 ± 20 ps)-1 and (120 ± 10 ps)-1, and lower triplet yields, (110 ± 4)% and (168 ± 7)%, respectively, than 4,4'-difluoro-BPEA. These differences are attributed to changes in the crystal structure controlling interchromophore electronic coupling as well as SF energetics in these polycrystalline solids.
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- Youn Jue Bae
- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, USA
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Shushin AI. Kinetics of singlet fission in organic semiconductors: Specific features of T-exciton migration effects. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:034103. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5099667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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- A. I. Shushin
- Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991, GSP-1, Kosygin St. 4, Moscow, Russian Federation and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Institutsky Lane 9, Dolgoprudny 141700, Moscow Region, Russian Federation
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Japahuge A, Lee S, Choi CH, Zeng T. Design of singlet fission chromophores with cyclic (alkyl)(amino) carbene building blocks. J Chem Phys 2019; 150:234306. [PMID: 31228896 DOI: 10.1063/1.5099062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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We use MRSF-TDDFT and NEVPT2 methods to design singlet fission chromophores with the building blocks of cyclic (alkyl)(amino)carbenes (CAACs). CAAC dimers with C2, C4, and p-phenylene spacers are considered. The substitutions with trifluoromethyls and fluorine atoms at the α C position are investigated. The electronegative substituents enhance the π accepting capability of the α C while maintaining it as a quaternary C atom. The phenylene-connected dimers with the two substitutions are identified as promising candidates for singlet fission chromophores. The cylindrically symmetric C2 and C4 spacers allow for substantial structural reorganizations in the S0-to-S1 and S0-to-T1 excitations. Although the two substituted dimers with the C4 spacer satisfy (or very close to satisfy) the primary thermodynamics criterion for singlet fission, the significant structural reorganizations result in high barriers so that the fission is kinetically unfavorable.
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- Achini Japahuge
- Department of Chemistry, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario K1S5B6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747, South Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702-701, South Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario K1S5B6, Canada
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Efficient triplet pair separation from intramolecular singlet fission in dibenzopentalene derivatives. Sci China Chem 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s11426-019-9482-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Ni W, Gurzadyan GG, Zhao J, Che Y, Li X, Sun L. Singlet Fission from Upper Excited Electronic States of Cofacial Perylene Dimer. J Phys Chem Lett 2019; 10:2428-2433. [PMID: 31025867 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b00717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Singlet fission directly from the upper excited vibrational and electronic states of cofacial perylene dimers, bypassing the relaxed state S1, was detected within 50 fs. This process competes well with vibrational cooling in S1 (4.7-7.0 ps) and S2 → S1 internal conversion (380 fs). The singlet fission has the energy threshold E = 3.06 eV. Other competitive relaxation processes are excimer and dimer cation formation on an ultrafast time scale. Excitation to higher energy levels (4.96 eV) leads to a higher efficiency of singlet fission.
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- Wenjun Ni
- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Institute of Artificial Photosynthesis , Dalian University of Technology , 116024 Dalian , China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Institute of Artificial Photosynthesis , Dalian University of Technology , 116024 Dalian , China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals , Dalian University of Technology , 116024 Dalian , China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals , Dalian University of Technology , 116024 Dalian , China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Institute of Artificial Photosynthesis , Dalian University of Technology , 116024 Dalian , China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Institute of Artificial Photosynthesis , Dalian University of Technology , 116024 Dalian , China
- Department of Chemistry, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health , KTH Royal Institute of Technology , 10044 Stockholm , Sweden
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Basel BS, Hetzer C, Zirzlmeier J, Thiel D, Guldi R, Hampel F, Kahnt A, Clark T, Guldi DM, Tykwinski RR. Davydov splitting and singlet fission in excitonically coupled pentacene dimers. Chem Sci 2019; 10:3854-3863. [PMID: 31015927 PMCID: PMC6461118 DOI: 10.1039/c9sc00384c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2019] [Accepted: 02/21/2019] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Singlet fission (SF) allows two charges to be generated from the absorption of a single photon and is, therefore, potentially transformative toward improving solar energy conversion. Key to the present study of SF is the design of pentacene dimers featuring a xanthene linker that strictly places two pentacene chromophores in a rigid arrangement and, in turn, enforces efficient, intramolecular π-overlap that mimics interactions typically found in condensed state (e.g., solids, films, etc.). Inter-chromophore communication ensures Davydov splitting, which plays an unprecedented role toward achieving SF in pentacene dimers. Transient absorption measurements document that intramolecular SF evolves upon excitation into the lower Davydov bands to form a correlated triplet pair at cryogenic temperature. At room temperature, the two spin-correlated triplets, one per pentacene moiety within the dimers, are electronically coupled to an excimer state. The presented results are transferable to a broad range of acene morphologies including aggregates, crystals, and films.
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- Bettina Sabine Basel
- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy , Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials (ICMM) , Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) , Egerlandstrasse 3 , 91058 Erlangen , Germany .
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy , Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials (ICMM) , Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) , Nikolaus-Fiebiger-Strasse 10 , 91058 Erlangen , Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy , Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials (ICMM) , Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) , Egerlandstrasse 3 , 91058 Erlangen , Germany .
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy , Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials (ICMM) , Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) , Egerlandstrasse 3 , 91058 Erlangen , Germany .
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy , Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials (ICMM) , Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) , Nikolaus-Fiebiger-Strasse 10 , 91058 Erlangen , Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy , Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials (ICMM) , Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) , Nikolaus-Fiebiger-Strasse 10 , 91058 Erlangen , Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Surface Engineering (IOM) , Permoserstr. 15 , D-04318 Leipzig , Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy , Computer-Chemistry-Center (CCC) , Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) , Nägelsbachstrasse 25 , 91052 Erlangen , Germany .
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy , Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials (ICMM) , Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) , Egerlandstrasse 3 , 91058 Erlangen , Germany .
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Alberta , Edmonton , Alberta, T6G 2G2 , Canada .
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Lone MS, Afzal S, Nazir N, Dutta R, Dar AA. Excimer based FRET between non-FRET pair flourophores aided by the aromatic moiety of anionic surfactants: An experimental observation. J Mol Liq 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2018.11.118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Rapid progress in the synthesis of perylene bisimide dyes gave an old scaffold new life.
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- Agnieszka Nowak-Król
- Universität Würzburg
- Institut für Organische Chemie and Center for Nanosystems Chemistry
- Am Hubland
- Germany
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- Universität Würzburg
- Institut für Organische Chemie and Center for Nanosystems Chemistry
- Am Hubland
- Germany
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Bressan G, Green D, Chan Y, Bulman Page PC, Jones GA, Meech SR, Heisler IA. One- to Two-Exciton Transitions in Perylene Bisimide Dimer Revealed by Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem A 2018; 123:1594-1601. [PMID: 30516984 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b11473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The excited-state energy levels of molecular dimers and aggregates play a critical role in their photophysical behavior and an understanding of the photodynamics in such structures is important for developing applications such as photovoltaics and optoelectronic devices. Here, exciton transitions in two different covalently bound PBI dimers are studied by two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy (2DES), a powerful spectroscopic method, providing the most complete picture of vibronic transitions in molecular systems. The data are accurately reproduced using the equation of motion-phase matching approach. The unambiguous presence of one-exciton to two-exciton transitions are captured in our results and described in terms of a molecular exciton energy level scheme based on the Kasha model. Furthermore, the results are supported by comparative measurements with the PBI monomer and another dimer in which the interchromophore distance is increased.
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- Giovanni Bressan
- School of Chemistry, Norwich Research Park , University of East Anglia , Norwich NR4 7TJ , United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry, Norwich Research Park , University of East Anglia , Norwich NR4 7TJ , United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry, Norwich Research Park , University of East Anglia , Norwich NR4 7TJ , United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry, Norwich Research Park , University of East Anglia , Norwich NR4 7TJ , United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry, Norwich Research Park , University of East Anglia , Norwich NR4 7TJ , United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry, Norwich Research Park , University of East Anglia , Norwich NR4 7TJ , United Kingdom
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- Departamento de Física , Universidade Federal do Paraná , Caixa Postal 19044, 81531-990 Curitiba , Parana , Brazil
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Lavarda G, Zirzlmeier J, Gruber M, Rami PR, Tykwinski RR, Torres T, Guldi DM. Feinabstimmung von intramolekularem resonantem Förster-Energietransfer und Aktivierung intramolekularer Singulettspaltung. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201808652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Giulia Lavarda
- Departamento de Química Orgánica und Institute for Advanced Research in Chemical Sciences (IAdChem); Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; 28049 Madrid Spanien
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- Department für Chemie und Pharmazie &, Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Molekulare Materialien (ICMM); Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU); Egerlandstraße 3 91058 Erlangen Deutschland
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- Department für Chemie und Pharmazie &, Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Molekulare Materialien (ICMM); Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU); Nikolaus-Fiebiger-Straße 10 91058 Erlangen Deutschland
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- Department of Chemistry; University of Alberta; Edmonton Alberta T6G 2G2 Kanada
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- Department für Chemie und Pharmazie &, Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Molekulare Materialien (ICMM); Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU); Nikolaus-Fiebiger-Straße 10 91058 Erlangen Deutschland
- Department of Chemistry; University of Alberta; Edmonton Alberta T6G 2G2 Kanada
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- Departamento de Química Orgánica und Institute for Advanced Research in Chemical Sciences (IAdChem); Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; 28049 Madrid Spanien
- IMDEA-Nanociencia; Campus de Cantoblanco 28049 Madrid Spanien
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- Department für Chemie und Pharmazie &, Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Molekulare Materialien (ICMM); Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU); Egerlandstraße 3 91058 Erlangen Deutschland
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Mandal A, Chen M, Foszcz ED, Schultz JD, Kearns NM, Young RM, Zanni MT, Wasielewski MR. Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy Reveals Excitation Energy-Dependent State Mixing during Singlet Fission in a Terrylenediimide Dimer. J Am Chem Soc 2018; 140:17907-17914. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b08627] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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- Aritra Mandal
- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin−Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin−Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, United States
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Zhu T, Huang L. Exciton Transport in Singlet Fission Materials: A New Hare and Tortoise Story. J Phys Chem Lett 2018; 9:6502-6510. [PMID: 30358404 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b02181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Singlet fission is promising for redistributing the solar spectrum to overcome the Shockley-Queisser limit for single-junction solar cells using molecular materials. Despite recent experimental and theoretical advances in understanding the underlying mechanisms, how exciton transport is coupled to singlet fission dynamics is much less explored. In this Perspective, we examine exciton transport in singlet fission materials, highlighting the use of transient absorption microscopy (TAM) to track the population of different states in both spatial and temporal domains. In contrast to the conventional picture where singlet and triplet excitons migrate independently, TAM measurements of acene single crystals reveal cooperative transport between fast-moving singlet and slow-moving triplet excitons. Such cooperative transport is unique to singlet fission materials and allows hundreds of nanometers triplet migration on the nanosecond time scale, beneficial for solar cell applications. The transport of triplet pair intermediates and general criteria for achieving cooperative singlet-triplet transport are also discussed.
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- Tong Zhu
- Department of Chemistry , Purdue University , West Lafayette , Indiana 47907 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Purdue University , West Lafayette , Indiana 47907 , United States
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Schierl C, Niazov-Elkan A, Shimon LJW, Feldman Y, Rybtchinski B, Guldi DM. Singlet fission in self-assembled PDI nanocrystals. NANOSCALE 2018; 10:20147-20154. [PMID: 30221262 DOI: 10.1039/c8nr04155e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Upon photoexcitation, self-assembled PDI nanocrystals (S1S0) in the form of rods of 70 nm width and 1 μm length are subject to a symmetry breaking charge separation (SBCS) as the first step in the singlet fission (SF) sequence. Hereby, the correlated pair of triplet excited states 1(T1T1) is formed with a quantum yield of 122%. Decoherence and triplet diffusion within the nanocrystals affords a long-lived, uncorrelated pair of triplet excited states (T1 + T1) with a quantum yield of 24%.
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- Christoph Schierl
- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy and Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Egerlandstrasse 3, 91058 Erlangen, Germany.
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Chen HC, Jiang BH, Hsu CP, Tsai YY, Jeng RJ, Chen CP, Wong KT. The Twisted Benzo[ghi
]-Perylenetriimide Dimer as a 3D Electron Acceptor for Fullerene-Free Organic Photovoltaics. Chemistry 2018; 24:17590-17597. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201804088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Hung-Cheng Chen
- Department of Chemistry; National (Taiwan) University; Taipei 10617 Taiwan
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- Institute of Polymer Science and Engineering, and Advanced Research Center for Green Materials Science and Technology; National (Taiwan) University; Taipei 10617 Taiwan
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- Institute of Chemistry; Academia Sinica; Taipei 11529 Taiwan
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- Department of Materials Engineering; Ming Chi University of Technology; New Taipei City 243 Taiwan
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- Institute of Polymer Science and Engineering, and Advanced Research Center for Green Materials Science and Technology; National (Taiwan) University; Taipei 10617 Taiwan
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- Department of Materials Engineering; Ming Chi University of Technology; New Taipei City 243 Taiwan
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- Department of Chemistry; National (Taiwan) University; Taipei 10617 Taiwan
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Bae YJ, Kang G, Malliakas CD, Nelson JN, Zhou J, Young RM, Wu YL, Van Duyne RP, Schatz GC, Wasielewski MR. Singlet Fission in 9,10-Bis(phenylethynyl)anthracene Thin Films. J Am Chem Soc 2018; 140:15140-15144. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b07498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Youn Jue Bae
- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, United States
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Lavarda G, Zirzlmeier J, Gruber M, Rami PR, Tykwinski RR, Torres T, Guldi DM. Tuning Intramolecular Förster Resonance Energy Transfer and Activating Intramolecular Singlet Fission. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2018; 57:16291-16295. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201808652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Giulia Lavarda
- Departamento de Química Orgánica and Institute for Advanced Research in Chemical Sciences (IAdChem); Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; 28049 Madrid Spain
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy & Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials (ICMM); Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU); Egerlandstrasse 3 91058 Erlangen Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy & Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials (ICMM); Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU); Nikolaus-Fiebiger-Strasse 10 91058 Erlangen Germany
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- Department of Chemistry; University of Alberta; Edmonton Alberta T6G 2G2 Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy & Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials (ICMM); Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU); Nikolaus-Fiebiger-Strasse 10 91058 Erlangen Germany
- Department of Chemistry; University of Alberta; Edmonton Alberta T6G 2G2 Canada
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- Departamento de Química Orgánica and Institute for Advanced Research in Chemical Sciences (IAdChem); Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; 28049 Madrid Spain
- IMDEA-Nanociencia; Campus de Cantoblanco 28049 Madrid Spain
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy & Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials (ICMM); Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU); Egerlandstrasse 3 91058 Erlangen Germany
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Viable access to the triplet excited state in peryleneimide based palladium complex
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§. J CHEM SCI 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/s12039-018-1537-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Pensack RD, Tilley AJ, Grieco C, Purdum GE, Ostroumov EE, Granger DB, Oblinsky DG, Dean JC, Doucette GS, Asbury JB, Loo YL, Seferos DS, Anthony JE, Scholes GD. Striking the right balance of intermolecular coupling for high-efficiency singlet fission. Chem Sci 2018; 9:6240-6259. [PMID: 30090312 PMCID: PMC6062843 DOI: 10.1039/c8sc00293b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2018] [Accepted: 05/31/2018] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Singlet fission is a process that splits collective excitations, or excitons, into two with unity efficiency. This exciton splitting process, unique to molecular photophysics, has the potential to considerably improve the efficiency of optoelectronic devices through more efficient light harvesting. While the first step of singlet fission has been characterized in great detail, subsequent steps critical to achieving overall highly-efficient singlet-to-triplet conversion are only just beginning to become well understood. One of the most elementary suggestions, which has yet to be tested, is that an appropriately balanced coupling is necessary to ensure overall highly efficient singlet fission; that is, the coupling needs to be strong enough so that the first step is fast and efficient, yet weak enough to ensure the independent behavior of the resultant triplets. In this work, we show how high overall singlet-to-triplet conversion efficiencies can be achieved in singlet fission by ensuring that the triplets comprising the triplet pair behave as independently as possible. We show that side chain sterics govern local packing in amorphous pentacene derivative nanoparticles, and that this in turn controls both the rate at which triplet pairs form and the rate at which they decay. We show how compact side chains and stronger couplings promote a triplet pair that effectively couples to the ground state, whereas bulkier side chains promote a triplet pair that appears more like two independent and long-lived triplet excitations. Our results show that the triplet pair is not emissive, that its decay is best viewed as internal conversion rather than triplet-triplet annihilation, and perhaps most critically that, in contrast to a number of recent suggestions, the triplets comprising the initially formed triplet pair cannot be considered independently. This work represents a significant step toward better understanding intermediates in singlet fission, and how molecular packing and couplings govern overall triplet yields.
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- Ryan D Pensack
- Department of Chemistry , Princeton University , Princeton , New Jersey 08544 , USA .
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Toronto , Toronto , Ontario M5S 3H6 , Canada
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- Department of Chemistry , The Pennsylvania State University , University Park , Pennsylvania 16802 , USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering , Princeton University , Princeton , New Jersey 08544 , USA
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- Department of Chemistry , Princeton University , Princeton , New Jersey 08544 , USA .
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Kentucky , Lexington , Kentucky 40506 , USA .
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- Department of Chemistry , Princeton University , Princeton , New Jersey 08544 , USA .
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- Department of Chemistry , Princeton University , Princeton , New Jersey 08544 , USA .
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- Department of Chemistry , The Pennsylvania State University , University Park , Pennsylvania 16802 , USA
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- Department of Chemistry , The Pennsylvania State University , University Park , Pennsylvania 16802 , USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering , Princeton University , Princeton , New Jersey 08544 , USA
- Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment , Princeton University , Princeton , New Jersey 08544 , USA
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Toronto , Toronto , Ontario M5S 3H6 , Canada
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry , University of Toronto , Toronto , Ontario M5S 3E5 , Canada
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Kentucky , Lexington , Kentucky 40506 , USA .
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- Department of Chemistry , Princeton University , Princeton , New Jersey 08544 , USA .
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Wang Y, Ke Y, Zhao Y. The hierarchical and perturbative forms of stochastic Schrödinger equations and their applications to carrier dynamics in organic materials. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR SCIENCE 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/wcms.1375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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- Yu‐Chen Wang
- State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Fujian Provincial Key Lab of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University Xiamen China
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- State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Fujian Provincial Key Lab of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University Xiamen China
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- State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Fujian Provincial Key Lab of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University Xiamen China
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Hartzler DA, Slipchenko LV, Savikhin S. Triplet–Triplet Coupling in Chromophore Dimers: Theory and Experiment. J Phys Chem A 2018; 122:6713-6723. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b04294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Chen M, Bae YJ, Mauck CM, Mandal A, Young RM, Wasielewski MR. Singlet Fission in Covalent Terrylenediimide Dimers: Probing the Nature of the Multiexciton State Using Femtosecond Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy. J Am Chem Soc 2018; 140:9184-9192. [PMID: 29949371 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b04830] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Singlet fission (SF) is a spin-allowed process that involves absorption of a photon by two electronically interacting chromophores to produce a singlet exciton state, 1(S1S0), followed by rapid formation of two triplet excitons if the singlet exciton energy is about twice that of the triplet exciton. The initial formation of the multiexciton correlated triplet pair state, 1(T1T1), is thought to involve the agency of charge transfer (CT) states. The dynamics of these electronic states were studied in a covalent slip-stacked terrylene-3,4:11,12-bis(dicarboximide) (TDI) dimer in which the conformation of two TDI molecules is determined by a xanthene spacer (XanTDI2). Femtosecond mid-infrared (fsIR) spectroscopy shows that the multiexciton 1(T1T1) state has absorptions characteristic of the T1 state in the carbonyl stretch region of the IR spectrum, in addition to IR absorptions specific to the CT state in the C═C stretch region. The simultaneous presence of CT and triplet state features in both high dielectric constant CH2Cl2 and low dielectric constant 1,4-dioxane throughout the multiexciton state lifetime suggests that this state has both CT and triplet character.
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- Michelle Chen
- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern , Northwestern University , Evanston , Illinois 60208-3113 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern , Northwestern University , Evanston , Illinois 60208-3113 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern , Northwestern University , Evanston , Illinois 60208-3113 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern , Northwestern University , Evanston , Illinois 60208-3113 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern , Northwestern University , Evanston , Illinois 60208-3113 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern , Northwestern University , Evanston , Illinois 60208-3113 , United States
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Zeng T, Mellerup SK, Yang D, Wang X, Wang S, Stamplecoskie K. Identifying (BN) 2-pyrenes as a New Class of Singlet Fission Chromophores: Significance of Azaborine Substitution. J Phys Chem Lett 2018; 9:2919-2927. [PMID: 29763325 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b01226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Singlet fission converts one photoexcited singlet state to two triplet excited states and raises photoelectric conversion efficiency in photovoltaic devices. However, only a handful of chromophores have been known to undergo this process, which greatly limits the application of singlet fission in photovoltaics. We hereby identify a recently synthesized diazadiborine-pyrene ((BN)2-pyrene) as a singlet fission chromophore. Theoretical calculations indicate that it satisfies the thermodynamics criteria for singlet fission. More importantly, the calculations provide a physical chemistry insight into how the BN substitution makes this happen. Both calculation and transient absorption spectroscopy experiments indicate that the chromophore has a better absorption than pentacene. The convenient synthesis pathway of the (BN)2-pyrene suggests an in situ chromophore generation in photovoltaic devices. Two more (BN)2-pyrene isomers are proposed as singlet fission chromophores. This study sets a step forward in the cross-link of singlet fission and azaborine chemistry.
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- Tao Zeng
- Department of Chemistry , Carleton University , Ottawa , Ontario K1S5B6 , Canada
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- Department of Chemistry , Queen's University , Kingston , Ontario K7L3N6 , Canada
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- Department of Chemistry , Queen's University , Kingston , Ontario K7L3N6 , Canada
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- Department of Chemistry , Queen's University , Kingston , Ontario K7L3N6 , Canada
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- Department of Chemistry , Queen's University , Kingston , Ontario K7L3N6 , Canada
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- Department of Chemistry , Queen's University , Kingston , Ontario K7L3N6 , Canada
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Wang X, Liu X, Cook C, Schatschneider B, Marom N. On the possibility of singlet fission in crystalline quaterrylene. J Chem Phys 2018; 148:184101. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5027553] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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- Xiaopeng Wang
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State Polytechnic University at Pomona, Pomona, California 91768, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State Polytechnic University at Pomona, Pomona, California 91768, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
- Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
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Basel BS, Zirzlmeier J, Hetzer C, Reddy SR, Phelan BT, Krzyaniak MD, Volland MK, Coto PB, Young RM, Clark T, Thoss M, Tykwinski RR, Wasielewski MR, Guldi DM. Evidence for Charge-Transfer Mediation in the Primary Events of Singlet Fission in a Weakly Coupled Pentacene Dimer. Chem 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2018.04.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Singlet fission is a photophysical reaction in which a singlet excited electronic state splits into two spin-triplet states. Singlet fission was discovered more than 50 years ago, but the interest in this process has gained a lot of momentum in the past decade due to its potential as a way to boost solar cell efficiencies. This review presents and discusses the most recent advances with respect to the theoretical and computational studies on the singlet fission phenomenon. The work revisits important aspects regarding electronic states involved in the process, the evaluation of fission rates and interstate couplings, the study of the excited state dynamics in singlet fission, and the advances in the design and characterization of singlet fission compounds and materials such as molecular dimers, polymers, or extended structures. Finally, the review tries to pinpoint some aspects that need further improvement and proposes future lines of research for theoretical and computational chemists and physicists in order to further push the understanding and applicability of singlet fission.
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- David Casanova
- Kimika Fakultatea , Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU) and Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) , P.K. 1072, 20080 Donostia , Euskadi, Spain.,IKERBASQUE, Basque, Foundation for Science , 48013 Bilbao , Euskadi, Spain
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Kida M, Kubo M, Ujihira T, Ebata T, Abe M, Inokuchi Y. Selective Probing of Potassium Ion in Solution by Intramolecular Excimer Fluorescence of Dibenzo-Crown Ethers. Chemphyschem 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201800163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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- Motoki Kida
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science; Hiroshima University; Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8526 Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science; Hiroshima University; Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8526 Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science; Hiroshima University; Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8526 Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science; Hiroshima University; Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8526 Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science; Hiroshima University; Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8526 Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science; Hiroshima University; Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8526 Japan
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Hetzer C, Guldi DM, Tykwinski RR. Pentacene Dimers as a Critical Tool for the Investigation of Intramolecular Singlet Fission. Chemistry 2018; 24:8245-8257. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201705355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Constantin Hetzer
- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy; Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials (ICMM); Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU); Nikolaus-Fiebiger-Straße 10 91058 Erlangen Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy; Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials (ICMM); Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU); Egerlandstrasse 3 91058 Erlangen Germany
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- Department of Chemistry; University of Alberta; Edmonton Alberta T6G 2G2 Canada
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Ito S, Nagami T, Nakano M. Molecular design for efficient singlet fission. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY C-PHOTOCHEMISTRY REVIEWS 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochemrev.2018.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Shushin AI. Kinetics of Prompt Fluorescence Decay in Rubrene Films. Manifestations of the Migration of T Excitons. RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B 2018. [DOI: 10.1134/s1990793117060082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Japahuge A, Zeng T. Theoretical Studies of Singlet Fission: Searching for Materials and Exploring Mechanisms. Chempluschem 2018; 83:146-182. [PMID: 31957288 DOI: 10.1002/cplu.201700489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2017] [Revised: 12/31/2017] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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In this Review article, a survey is given for theoretical studies in the subject of singlet fission. Singlet fission converts one singlet exciton to two triplet excitons. With the doubled number of excitons and the longer lifetime of the triplets, singlet fission provides an avenue to improve the photoelectric conversion efficiency in organic photovoltaic devices. It has been a subject of intense research in the past decade. Theoretical studies play an essential role in understanding singlet fission. This article presents a Review of theoretical studies in singlet fission since 2006, the year when the research interest in this subject was reignited. Both electronic structure and dynamics studies are covered. Electronic structure studies provide guidelines for designing singlet fission chromophores and insights into the couplings between single- and multi-excitonic states. The latter provides fundamental knowledge for engineering interchromophore conformations to enhance the fission efficiency. Dynamics studies reveal the importance of vibronic couplings in singlet fission.
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- Achini Japahuge
- Department of Chemistry, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S5B6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S5B6, Canada
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Aulin YV, Felter KM, Günbas DD, Dubey RK, Jager WF, Grozema FC. Morphology-Independent Efficient Singlet Exciton Fission in Perylene Diimide Thin Films. Chempluschem 2018; 83:230-238. [PMID: 31957287 DOI: 10.1002/cplu.201700449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2017] [Revised: 12/15/2017] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Perylene diimides are conjugated chromophores that are of considerable interest owing to their ability to transform a singlet excited state into two triplets by singlet fission. Although singlet fission has previously been reported for certain perylene diimide derivatives, there is some uncertainty about the rates and yield of the process in these materials. In this report, ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy is used to demonstrate that singlet fission in perylene diimides can occur on a sub-picosecond timescale with quantum yields approaching the theoretical limit of 200 %.
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- Yaroslav V Aulin
- Optoelectronic Materials Section, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HS, Delft, The Netherlands
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- Optoelectronic Materials Section, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HS, Delft, The Netherlands
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- Optoelectronic Materials Section, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HS, Delft, The Netherlands
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- Optoelectronic Materials Section, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HS, Delft, The Netherlands.,Organic Materials and Interfaces Section, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HS, Delft, The Netherlands
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- Organic Materials and Interfaces Section, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HS, Delft, The Netherlands
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- Optoelectronic Materials Section, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HS, Delft, The Netherlands
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Hoche J, Schmitt HC, Humeniuk A, Fischer I, Mitrić R, Röhr MIS. The mechanism of excimer formation: an experimental and theoretical study on the pyrene dimer. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 19:25002-25015. [PMID: 28876005 DOI: 10.1039/c7cp03990e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The understanding of excimer formation in organic materials is of fundamental importance, since excimers profoundly influence their functional performance in applications such as light-harvesting, photovoltaics or organic electronics. We present a joint experimental and theoretical study of the ultrafast dynamics of excimer formation in the pyrene dimer in a supersonic jet, which is the archetype of an excimer forming system. We perform simulations of the nonadiabatic photodynamics in the frame of TDDFT that reveal two distinct excimer formation pathways in the gas-phase dimer. The first pathway involves local excited state relaxation close to the initial Franck-Condon geometry that is characterized by a strong excitation of the stacking coordinate exhibiting damped oscillations with a period of 350 fs that persist for several picoseconds. The second excimer forming pathway involves large amplitude oscillations along the parallel shift coordinate with a period of ≈900 fs that after intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution leads to the formation of a perfectly stacked dimer. The electronic relaxation within the excitonic manifold is mediated by the presence of intermolecular conical intersections formed between fully delocalized excitonic states. Such conical intersections may generally arise in stacked π-conjugated aggregates due to the interplay between the long-range and short-range electronic coupling. The simulations are supported by picosecond photoionization experiments in a supersonic jet that provide a time-constant for the excimer formation of around 6-7 ps, in good agreement with theory. Finally, in order to explore how the crystal environment influences the excimer formation dynamics we perform large scale QM/MM nonadiabatic dynamics simulations on a pyrene crystal in the framework of the long-range corrected tight-binding TDDFT. In contrast to the isolated dimer, the excimer formation in the crystal follows a single reaction pathway in which the initially excited parallel slip motion is strongly damped by the interaction with the surrounding molecules leading to the slow excimer stabilization on a picosecond time scale.
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- Joscha Hoche
- Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, D-97074, Würzburg, Germany.
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Dirian K, Bauroth S, Roth A, Syrgiannis Z, Rigodanza F, Burian M, Amenitsch H, Sharapa DI, Prato M, Clark T, Guldi DM. A water-soluble, bay-functionalized perylenediimide derivative - correlating aggregation and excited state dynamics. NANOSCALE 2018; 10:2317-2326. [PMID: 29327015 DOI: 10.1039/c7nr07870f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The aggregation and the photophysics of a water soluble perylenediimide (PDI) derivative that features two bromine substituents in the bay positions has been probed. Non-fluorescent aggregates were found to be present at concentrations of 1.0 × 10-5 M. In situ small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) measurements and complementary molecular modeling showed the presence of PDI aggregates. In their singlet excited states, the PDI aggregates are characterized by distinct transient fingerprints and rapid deactivation, as revealed by pump-probe experiments on the femto-, pico-, nano-, and microsecond timescales. The product of this deactivation is a PDI triplet excited state. The efficiency of the triplet formation depends on the concentration, and hence on the degree of aggregation. Notably, for PDI concentrations in the range of the critical micelle concentration, the efficiency of intersystem crossing is close to zero. In short, we have demonstrated, for the first time, aggregation-induced formation of triplet excited states for PDI derivatives.
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- K Dirian
- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy & Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuernberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany.
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