Recent advances in triplet–triplet annihilation upconversion and singlet fission, towards solar energy applications

AJ Carrod, V Gray, K Börjesson - Energy & Environmental Science, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Solar energy is an ample renewable energy resource, with photovoltaic (PV) technology
enabling a direct route from light to electricity. Currently, PVs are limited in photon …

Mixed electronic states in molecular dimers: Connecting singlet fission, excimer formation, and symmetry-breaking charge transfer

RM Young, MR Wasielewski - Accounts of chemical research, 2020 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Chromophore aggregates are capable of a wide variety of excited-state
dynamics that are potentially of great use in optoelectronic devices based on organic …

Spin-vibronic mechanism for intersystem crossing

TJ Penfold, E Gindensperger, C Daniel… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Intersystem crossing (ISC), formally forbidden within nonrelativistic quantum theory, is the
mechanism by which a molecule changes its spin state. It plays an important role in the …

Accelerating symmetry-breaking charge separation in a perylenediimide trimer through a vibronically coherent dimer intermediate

C Lin, T Kim, JD Schultz, RM Young… - Nature chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
Understanding the photophysics and photochemistry of molecular π-stacked chromophores
is important for utilizing them as functional photonic materials. However, these investigations …

Organic optoelectronic materials: mechanisms and applications

O Ostroverkhova - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Organic (opto) electronic materials have received considerable attention due to their
applications in thin-film-transistors, light-emitting diodes, solar cells, sensors, photorefractive …

Triplet pair states in singlet fission

K Miyata, FS Conrad-Burton, FL Geyer… - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
This account aims at providing an understanding of singlet fission, ie, the photophysical
process of a singlet state (S1) splitting into two triplet states (2× T1) in molecular …

Reducing aggregation caused quenching effect through co-assembly of PAH chromophores and molecular barriers

Y Huang, J Xing, Q Gong, LC Chen, G Liu… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The features of well-conjugated and planar aromatic structures make π-conjugated
luminescent materials suffer from aggregation caused quenching (ACQ) effect when used in …

Theoretical modeling of singlet fission

D Casanova - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
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 …

Unconventional singlet fission materials

T Ullrich, D Munz, DM Guldi - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Singlet fission (SF) is a photophysical downconversion pathway, in which a singlet excitation
transforms into two triplet excited states. As such, it constitutes an exciton multiplication …

Harnessing singlet exciton fission to break the Shockley–Queisser limit

A Rao, RH Friend - Nature reviews materials, 2017 - nature.com
Singlet exciton fission is a carrier multiplication process in organic semiconductors that
generates two electron–hole pairs for each photon absorbed. Singlet fission occurs on sub …