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Ng CH, Ohlin CA, Qiu S, Sun C, Winther-Jensen B. Mechanistic studies of the photo-electrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction on poly(2,2′-bithiophene). Catal Sci Technol 2016. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cy01852h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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The realisation of poly(2,2′-bithiophene) (PBTh) as an effective photo-electrocatalyst for the hydrogen evolution reaction is a novel discovery [Ng et al., Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, 2014, 39, 18230]; however, the underlying mechanism for this catalysis remains unknown.
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- Chun Hin Ng
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering
- Monash University
- Clayton
- Australia
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- School of Chemistry
- Monash University
- Clayton
- Australia
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- School of Chemistry
- Monash University
- Clayton
- Australia
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering
- Monash University
- Clayton
- Australia
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Pina J, Seixas de Melo JS, Batista RMF, Costa SPG, Raposo MMM. Synthesis and characterization of the ground and excited states of tripodal-like oligothienyl-imidazoles. J Phys Chem B 2010; 114:4964-72. [PMID: 20337451 DOI: 10.1021/jp9104954] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Six new thiophene oligomers, here designated as tripodal-like oligothienyl-imidazoles, were synthesized and have been investigated in ethanol solution at room and low temperature. The oligomers bear a common core where two or more thiophenes are linked to one or more imidazole units that further links through its alpha-position to a different number of incremental thiophene units. The study involves a comprehensive spectral and photophysical investigation where the properties of the singlet and triplet states have been investigated regarding absorption, fluorescence and phosphorescence, transient triplet-triplet absorption together with all relevant quantum yields (fluorescence, phi(F), internal conversion, phi(IC), intersystem crossing, phi(T,) and singlet oxygen, phi(Delta)) and lifetimes. In addition, density functional theory quantum chemical calculations were performed to gain a detailed understanding of the molecular geometry and optical properties of the investigated oligomers. From the overall data, the radiative (k(F)) and radiationless (k(NR), k(IC), and k(ISC)) rate constants have been determined and it is shown that, in contrast with the parent oligothiophenes, the radiative competes with the radiationless deactivation channels. The results show that, by comparison with the oligothiophene counterparts, there is an augment of the relative contributions of the internal conversion and fluorescence processes relative to the S(1)~~-->T(1) intersystem crossing. Phosphosphorescence emission was found for the simplest member of the investigated compounds with a low quantum yield (phi(Ph) = 0.009) and a lifetime of 8 micros. The data also show that the introduction of a 4,5-dithienyl-imidazole moiety in a bi- or terthiophene oligomer results in, respectively, a 20-fold and a 3-fold increase of the fluorescence quantum yield relative to their oligothiophene counterparts. The synergy of the structural and photophysical properties, combined with the exceptional thermal stabilities, opens new perspectives related to the copolymerization of oligothiophenes with thienyl-imidazole units with potential application as organic light emitting devices.
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- João Pina
- Department of Chemistry, University of Coimbra, 3004-535 Coimbra, Portugal
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Su WF, Chen TT, Chen Y. Synthesis and optoelectronic properties of luminescent copolyfluorenes slightly doped with thiophene chromophore. POLYMER 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2010.02.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Pina J, Seixas de Melo J, Burrows HD, Bilge A, Farrell T, Forster M, Scherf U. Spectral and photophysical studies on cruciform oligothiophenes in solution and the solid state. J Phys Chem B 2007; 110:15100-6. [PMID: 16884222 DOI: 10.1021/jp060707t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The photophysical and spectroscopic properties of a new class of oligothiophene derivatives, designated as cruciform oligomers, have been investigated in solution (room and low temperature) and in the solid state (as thin films in Zeonex matrixes). The study comprises absorption, emission, and triplet-triplet absorption spectra, together with quantitative measurements of quantum yields (fluorescence, intersystem crossing, internal conversion, and singlet oxygen formation) and lifetimes. The overall data allow the determination of the rate constants for all decay processes. From these, several conclusions are drawn. First, in solution, the main deactivation channels for the compounds are the radiationless processes: S(1) --> S(0) internal conversion and S(1) --> T(1) intersystem crossing. Second, in general, in the solid state, the fluorescence quantum yields decrease relative to solution. A comparison is made with the analogous linear alpha-oligothiophenes, revealing a lower fluorescence quantum efficiency and, in contrast to the normal oligothiophenes, that internal conversion is an important channel for the deactivation of the singlet excited state. Replacement of thiophene by 1,4-phenylene units in the longer-sized cruciform oligomer increases the fluorescence efficiency. The highly efficient generation of singlet oxygen through energy transfer from the triplet state (S(Delta) approximately 1) provides support for the measured intersystem crossing quantum yields and suggests that reaction with this may be an important pathway to consider for degradation of devices produced with these compounds.
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- J Pina
- Departamento de Química, Universidade de Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-535 Coimbra, Portugal
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Wasserberg D, Marsal P, Meskers SCJ, Janssen RAJ, Beljonne D. Phosphorescence and triplet state energies of oligothiophenes. J Phys Chem B 2007; 109:4410-5. [PMID: 16851510 DOI: 10.1021/jp0457085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The phosphorescence spectra of a series of small oligothiophenes (nT, n = 1-3) incorporating a variety of substituents, end cappers, and functional groups have been recorded for the first time using gated detection in combination with nanosecond excitation in frozen solution at 80 K. The vibrationally resolved emission spectra provide accurate estimates of the T(1) and S(1) levels, and the singlet-triplet energy gap. Theoretical quantum chemical calculations performed at the DFT (B3LYP/6-31G*) level reproduce all experimental trends accurately and provide quantitative description of the S(0)-T(1) energy difference. The geometry relaxation in the excited state shows that the "natural" size of the triplet exciton is about 3-4 thiophene units.
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- Dorothee Wasserberg
- Laboratory of Macromolecular and Organic Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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Belbakra A, Goeb S, De Nicola A, Ziessel R, Sabatini C, Barbieri A, Barigelletti F. Spectroscopic and Redox Properties of Novel d6-Complexes Engineered from All Z-Ethenylthiophene-bipyridine Ligands. Inorg Chem 2007; 46:839-47. [PMID: 17257027 DOI: 10.1021/ic061825y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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A series of quasilinear dinuclear complexes incorporating ruthenium(II)- and osmium(II)-tris(2,2'-bipyridine) units has been prepared in which the individual metal-containing moieties are separated by 3,4-dibutyl-2,5-diethenylthiophene spacers and end-capped by 3,4-dibutyl-2-ethenylthiophene subunits; related ruthenium(II) and osmium(II) mononuclear complexes have also been prepared where one bpy unit is likewise end-capped by 3,4-dibutyl-2-ethenylthiophene subunits [bpy = 2,2'-bipyridine]. Overall, mononuclear species, labeled here Ru and Os, and dinuclear species, RuRu, OsOs, and RuOs, have been prepared and investigated. Their electrochemical behavior has been studied in CH3CN solvent and reveals ethenylthiophene-centered oxidations (irreversible steps at > +1.37 V vs SCE), metal-centered oxidations (reversible steps at +1.30 V vs SCE for Ru(II/III) and +0.82 V vs SCE for Os(II/III)), and successive reduction steps localized at the substituted bpy subunits. The spectroscopic studies performed for the complexes in CH3CN solvent provided optical absorption spectra associated with transitions of ligand-centered nature (LC, from the bpy and ethenylthiophene subunits) and metal-to-ligand charge-transfer nature (MLCT), with the former dominating in the visible region (400-600 nm). While the constituent ethenylthiophene-bpy ligands are strong fluorophores (fluorescence efficiency in CH2Cl2 solvent, phi em = 0.49 and 0.39, for the monomer and the dimer, respectively), only weak luminescence is observed for each complex in acetonitrile at room temperature. In particular, (i) the complexes Ru and RuRu do not emit appreciably, and (ii) the complexes Os, OsOs, and RuOs exhibit triplet emission of 3Os --> L CT character, with phi em in the range from 10-3 to 10-4. These features are rationalized on the basis of the role of nonemissive triplet energy levels, 3Th, centered on the ethenylthiophene spacer. These levels appear to lie lower in energy than the 3Ru --> L CT triplet levels, and in turn higher in energy than the 3Os --> L CT triplet levels, along the sequence 3Ru --> L CT > 3Th > 3Os --> L CT.
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- Abdelhalim Belbakra
- Laboratoire de Chimie Moléculaire, Ecole de Chimie, Polymères, Matériaux, Université Louis Pasteur, 25 rue Becquerel, 67087 Strasbourg Cedex 02, France
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Barbieri A, Ventura B, Flamigni L, Barigelletti F, Fuhrmann G, Bäuerle P, Goeb S, Ziessel R. Binuclear wirelike dimers based on ruthenium(II)-bipyridine units linked by ethynylene-oligothiophene-ethynylene bridges. Inorg Chem 2006; 44:8033-43. [PMID: 16241153 DOI: 10.1021/ic050596x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The syntheses, structural characteristics, electrochemical behavior, ground-state spectra, photophysical properties, and transient absorption (TA) spectra in CH(3)CN solvent are reported for binuclear [(bpy)(2)Ru(bpy-E(T)(n)()E-bpy)Ru(bpy)(2)](4+) complexes, Ru(bpyT(n)bpy)Ru, where the Ru-based units are connected by alternating 3,4-dibutylthiophene (DBT')/thiophene (T') fragments linked via ethynyl groups (E) to bpy ligands at the 5-position (bpy is 2,2'-bipyridine). The ligand bpyT(3)bpy represents a module containing DBT'/T'/DBT' subunits, and bpyT(5)bpy accounts for a DBT'/T'/DBT'/T'/DBT' pattern. The syntheses and electrochemical and spectroscopic (emission and TA) properties in CH(2)Cl(2) solvent of the bpyT(n)()bpy ligands are likewise reported. The behavior of the Ru(bpyT(n)bpy)Ru dimers has been compared to that of the bpyT(n)bpy ligands and to that of a related mononuclear complex, [(bpy)(2)Ru(bpy-E-DBT')](2+), Ru(bpyDBT'). For the dimeric complexes, the electrochemical results show that the first reduction step takes place at the bpy ligand(s) bearing an ethynylene group, the first oxidation step is thiophene-centered, and further oxidation involves the metal centers, which are only weakly interacting. The photophysical and TA results for the Ru(bpyT(n)bpy)Ru dimers account for the presence of low-lying oligothiophene-centered (3)pi,pi levels, while higher-lying metal-ligand charge transfer ((3)MLCT) levels are thermally accessible only for the case of Ru(bpyT(3)bpy)Ru; the possible role of charge separation (CS) levels (from oxidation at the thiophene bridge and reduction at one of the coordinated bpy's) is also discussed.
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- Andrea Barbieri
- Istituto per la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattività, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISOF-CNR), Bologna, Italy.
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Goeb S, De Nicola A, Ziessel R, Sabatini C, Barbieri A, Barigelletti F. Energy Transfer in Hybrids Based on a Thiophene-Substituted Ethynylbipyridine Dimer Decorated with Re(I), Ru(II), and Os(II) Units. Inorg Chem 2006; 45:1173-83. [PMID: 16441128 DOI: 10.1021/ic051717w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The preparation, structural features, electrochemical behavior, and optical properties (at room temperature and at 77 K) are reported for a series of thiophene-containing hybrids based on the bent conjugated backbone of a rigid ditopic ligand, the dimeric moiety 3,4-dibutyl-2,5-bis{5'-[(3,4-dibutylthien-2-ylethynyl)-2,2'-bipyridin-5-yl]ethynyl}thiophene (TBTBT). Within the dimer, the diethynyl-2,2'-bipyridine units (bpy, the coordination sites) alternate with three 3,4-dibuthylthiophene units and coordination of the [Re(CO)3Cl], [Ru(bpy)2]2+, and [Os(bpy)2]2+ centers results in the mononuclear species RuTBTBT and OsTBTBT and the binuclear species RuTBTBTRu, OsTBTBTOs, RuTBTBTOs, and ReTBTBTOs. At room temperature, the emitting states obtained by photoexcitation are of 3MLCT nature, and vibronic analysis of the emission spectra indicates that they are largely delocalized over the TBTBT ligand. In the binuclear species, the intermetal separation is ca. 17 A, and for RuTBTBTOs, an efficient Ru --> Os excitation transfer takes place, resulting solely in an Os-based emission. The process is ascribed to double-electron transfer (Dexter), as mediated by the TBTBT ligand; a similar conclusion holds for the case of ReTBTBTOs. For RuTBTBTOs, the process is discussed in some detail also with regard to the possibility of disentangling the constituent hole and electron-transfer events.
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- Sébastien Goeb
- Istituto per la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattività, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via P. Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy
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Ziessel R, Bäuerle P, Ammann M, Barbieri A, Barigelletti F. Exciton-like energy collection in an oligothiophene wire end-capped by Ru- and Os-polypyridine chromophores. Chem Commun (Camb) 2005:802-4. [PMID: 15685344 DOI: 10.1039/b415600e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Ru(II)- and Os(II)-polypyridine termini are linked by a quinquethiophene bridge (the inter-metal separation is ca. 1.9 nm) wherein excitation energy flows into the luminescent Os-based unit by way of a conductive level.
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- Raymond Ziessel
- Laboratoire de Chimie Moléculaire, Ecole de Chimie, Polymères, Matériaux (ECPM), Université Louis Pasteur (ULP), 25 rue Becquerel, 67087 Strasbourg Cedex 02, France.
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King S, Rothe C, Monkman A. Triplet build in and decay of isolated polyspirobifluorene chains in dilute solution. J Chem Phys 2004; 121:10803-8. [PMID: 15549966 DOI: 10.1063/1.1811600] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The triplet kinetics of a conjugated polymer, polyspirobifluorene, have been studied using time resolved photoinduced absorption spectroscopy and gated emission delayed fluorescence. Working on isolated polymer chains in dilute solution, we pay particular attention to the buildup and decay of the triplet states following intersystem crossing from the excited singlet state. Confirmation of intersystem crossing as a monomolecular cold process has been made. At high excitation powers an initial fast decay of the triplet has been observed; this is attributed to intrachain triplet-triplet annihilation. From this observation we estimate the lower bound of the intersystem crossing yield as 1.2%. We also calculate the intrachain annihilation constant to be (2.9+/-0.1)x 10(8) cm(3) s(-1).
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- Simon King
- OEM Research Group, Department of Physics, University of Durham, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
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Barbieri A, Ventura B, Barigelletti F, De Nicola A, Quesada M, Ziessel R. Mononuclear and Binuclear Wirelike Ruthenium(II) Complexes with Oligo-diethynyl-thiophene Bridged Back-to-Back Terpyridine Ligands: Synthesis and Electrochemical and Photophysical Properties. Inorg Chem 2004; 43:7359-68. [PMID: 15530086 DOI: 10.1021/ic0493043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The syntheses, structural features, electrochemical behavior, absorption spectra, and photophysical properties of five mononuclear complexes [(terpy)Ru(terpy-DEDBT(n)-terpy)](2+), RuT(n), and five binuclear complexes [(terpy)Ru(terpy-DEDBT(n)-terpy)Ru(terpy)](4+), RuT(n)Ru, are reported, where n varies from 1 to 5 so that the metal-metal distance is estimated to be 42 A for the largest binuclear complex, RuT(5)Ru (terpy is 2,2':6',2"-terpyridine and DEDBT is 2,5-diethynyl-3,4-dibutylthiophene). The metal-centered oxidation potentials for the mononuclear and binuclear species are slightly more positive than for the reference [Ru(terpy)(2)](2+) complex, owing to the withdrawing nature of the back-to-back terpyridine ligands incorporating the repeat diethynyl-thiophene units. Comparison of the reduction potentials for the mononuclear and binuclear complexes reveals that the reduction steps are localized either at the terpy fragments of the T(n) ligands or at the terpy peripheral ligands. The spectroscopic results (absorption spectra at room temperature, luminescence spectra and lifetimes at room temperature and at 77 K) in acetonitrile solvent are consistent with the establishment of electronic delocalization within the oligomeric diethynyl-thiophene fragments (DEDBT(n)) of the T(n) ligands; however, the results also indicate that the terpy units of these ligands and the DEDBT(n)fragments are not strongly coupled. Both at room temperature and at 77 K, the (3)metal-to-ligand charge-transfer luminescence of RuT(n) and RuT(n)Ru complexes is strongly depressed in the larger species with respect to what happens for n < or = 2 (where the luminescence quantum yield is phi approximately 10(-4)); this is discussed in terms of the possible intervention of triplet levels localized at the oligothiophene DEDBT(n)(fragments.
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- Andrea Barbieri
- Istituto per la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattività, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISOF-CNR), Via P. Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy.
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Liu Y, De Nicola A, Reiff O, Ziessel R, Schanze KS. Photophysics and Photoinduced Electron-Transfer Reactivity of Ruthenium(II) Complexes with Oligo(thiophene-bipyridine) Ligands,1. J Phys Chem A 2003. [DOI: 10.1021/jp026971d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Yao Liu
- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, P. O. Box 117200, Gainesville, Florida 32611-7200, and Laboratoire de Chimie Moléculaire, Ecole de Chimie, Polymères, Matériaux (ECPM), Université Louis Pasteur (ULP), 25 Rue Becquerel, 67087 Strasbourg Cedex 02, France
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, P. O. Box 117200, Gainesville, Florida 32611-7200, and Laboratoire de Chimie Moléculaire, Ecole de Chimie, Polymères, Matériaux (ECPM), Université Louis Pasteur (ULP), 25 Rue Becquerel, 67087 Strasbourg Cedex 02, France
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, P. O. Box 117200, Gainesville, Florida 32611-7200, and Laboratoire de Chimie Moléculaire, Ecole de Chimie, Polymères, Matériaux (ECPM), Université Louis Pasteur (ULP), 25 Rue Becquerel, 67087 Strasbourg Cedex 02, France
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, P. O. Box 117200, Gainesville, Florida 32611-7200, and Laboratoire de Chimie Moléculaire, Ecole de Chimie, Polymères, Matériaux (ECPM), Université Louis Pasteur (ULP), 25 Rue Becquerel, 67087 Strasbourg Cedex 02, France
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, P. O. Box 117200, Gainesville, Florida 32611-7200, and Laboratoire de Chimie Moléculaire, Ecole de Chimie, Polymères, Matériaux (ECPM), Université Louis Pasteur (ULP), 25 Rue Becquerel, 67087 Strasbourg Cedex 02, France
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Noh YY, Lee CL, Kim JJ, Yase K. Energy transfer and device performance in phosphorescent dye doped polymer light emitting diodes. J Chem Phys 2003. [DOI: 10.1063/1.1535211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 202] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Pressure dependent radiative quantum yields of the prompt and delayed luminescence of polyfluorene films. Chem Phys Lett 2002. [DOI: 10.1016/s0009-2614(02)00801-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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