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 …

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 …

Enabling singlet fission by controlling intramolecular charge transfer in π-stacked covalent terrylenediimide dimers

EA Margulies, CE Miller, Y Wu, L Ma, GC Schatz… - Nature Chemistry, 2016 - nature.com
When an assembly of two or more molecules absorbs a photon to form a singlet exciton, and
the energetics and intermolecular interactions are favourable, the singlet exciton can rapidly …

Singlet fission via an excimer-like intermediate in 3, 6-bis (thiophen-2-yl) diketopyrrolopyrrole derivatives

CM Mauck, PE Hartnett, EA Margulies… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Singlet fission (SF) in polycrystalline thin films of four 3, 6-bis (thiophen-2-yl)
diketopyrrolopyrrole (TDPP) chromophores with methyl (Me), n-hexyl (C6), triethylene glycol …

A direct mechanism of ultrafast intramolecular singlet fission in pentacene dimers

EG Fuemmeler, SN Sanders, AB Pun… - ACS central …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Interest in materials that undergo singlet fission (SF) has been catalyzed by the potential to
exceed the Shockley–Queisser limit of solar power conversion efficiency. In conventional …

Exploiting excited-state aromaticity to design highly stable singlet fission materials

KJ Fallon, P Budden, E Salvadori… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
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 …

Direct observation of a charge-transfer state preceding high-yield singlet fission in terrylenediimide thin films

EA Margulies, JL Logsdon, CE Miller… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Singlet exciton fission (SF) in organic chromophore assemblies results in the conversion of
one singlet exciton (S1) into two triplet excitons (T1), provided that the overall process is …

Tuning singlet fission in π-bridge-π chromophores

E Kumarasamy, SN Sanders… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We have designed a series of pentacene dimers separated by homoconjugated or
nonconjugated bridges that exhibit fast and efficient intramolecular singlet exciton fission …