Challenges, progress and prospects in solid state triplet fusion upconversion

J Alves, J Feng, L Nienhaus, TW Schmidt - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Many applications, including solar energy conversion, can be enhanced by the
upconversion of low energy photons. A flexible approach towards achieving this is by …

Singlet fission in 9, 10-bis (phenylethynyl) anthracene thin films

YJ Bae, G Kang, CD Malliakas, JN Nelson… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Singlet fission (SF) in two or more electronically coupled organic chromophores converts a
high-energy singlet exciton into two low-energy triplet excitons, which can be used to …

Photon upconversion from near-infrared to blue light with TIPS-anthracene as an efficient triplet–triplet annihilator

N Nishimura, V Gray, JR Allardice, Z Zhang… - ACS Materials …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Photon upconversion (PUC) via triplet–triplet annihilation (TTA) from near-infrared (NIR) to
blue photons could have important applications especially to bioimaging and drug delivery …

Ultrafast dynamics of the 9, 10-bis [(triisopropylsilyl) ethynyl] anthracene nanoaggregate and thin film: Influence of the molecular packing and sample morphology on …

A Nandi, B Manna, R Ghosh - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Photophysics and ultrafast exciton dynamics of 9, 10-bis (triisopropylsilylethynyl) anthracene
(TIPSAn) nanoaggregates and thin films are studied. The effect of molecular packing on …

Recyclable optical bioplastics platform for solid state red light harvesting via triplet–triplet annihilation photon upconversion

P Bharmoria, F Edhborg, H Bildirir, Y Sasaki… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Sustainable photonics applications of solid-state triplet–triplet annihilation photon
upconversion (TTA-UC) are limited by a small UC spectral window, low UC efficiency in air …

Enhancing NIR-to-visible upconversion in a rigidly coupled tetracene dimer: approaching statistical limits for triplet–triplet annihilation using intramolecular …

AT Gilligan, R Owens, EG Miller, NF Pompetti… - Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Important applications of photon upconversion through triplet–triplet annihilation require
conversion of near-IR photons to visible light. Generally, however, efficiencies in this …

Triplet‐triplet Annihilation Dynamics of Naphthalene

M Gudem, M Kowalewski - Chemistry–A European Journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Triplet‐triplet annihilation (TTA) is a spin‐allowed conversion of two triplet states into one
singlet excited state, which provides an efficient route to generate a photon of higher …

High efficiency deep red to yellow photochemical upconversion under solar irradiance

JK Gallaher, KM Wright, L Frazer… - Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The performance of a perylene monoimide annihilator is evaluated in a photochemical
upconversion composition. It is found to perform up to five times better than the commonly …

Supramolecular scaffold–directed two-dimensional assembly of pentacene into a configuration to facilitate singlet fission

M Fukumitsu, T Fukui, Y Shoji, T Kajitani, R Khan… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Molecular assemblies featuring two-dimensionality have attracted increasing attention,
whereas such structures are difficult to construct simply relying on spontaneous molecular …

Computationally driven design principles for singlet fission in organic chromophores

K Bhattacharyya, A Datta - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2019 - ACS Publications
Singlet fission is a new mechanistic pathway to overcome the Shockley–Queisser limit by
generating twice the number of triplet excitons per singly absorbed photon in selected …