Perylene bisimide dye assemblies as archetype functional supramolecular materials

F Würthner, CR Saha-Möller, B Fimmel… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
When many of the currently largest chemical companies were founded about 150 years ago,
textile dyes constituted their first products. Interestingly, while most of the utilized colorants …

Excitation energy transfer in organic materials: from fundamentals to optoelectronic devices

F Laquai, YS Park, JJ Kim… - Macromolecular rapid …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
In this review, we discuss investigations of electronic excitation energy transfer in
conjugated organic materials at the bulk and single molecule level and applications of …

Singlet fission in a covalently linked cofacial alkynyltetracene dimer

NV Korovina, S Das, Z Nett, X Feng, J Joy… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Singlet fission is a process in which a singlet exciton converts into two triplet excitons. To
investigate this phenomenon, we synthesized two covalently linked 5-ethynyl-tetracene (ET) …

Singlet exciton fission in polycrystalline thin films of a slip-stacked perylenediimide

SW Eaton, LE Shoer, SD Karlen, SM Dyar… - Journal of the …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The crystal structure of N, N-bis (n-octyl)-2, 5, 8, 11-tetraphenylperylene-3, 4: 9, 10-bis
(dicarboximide), 1, obtained by X-ray diffraction reveals that 1 has a nearly planar perylene …

Symmetry-breaking charge separation in molecular constructs for efficient light energy conversion

E Sebastian, M Hariharan - ACS Energy Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
The generation of electron–hole radical pair at the active layer of organic photovoltaics
through symmetry-breaking charge separation (SB-CS) has a crucial role in enhancing open …

Making triplets from photo-generated charges: observations, mechanisms and theory

DJ Gibbons, A Farawar, P Mazzella… - Photochemical & …, 2020 - Springer
Triplet formation by charge recombination is a phenomenon that is encountered in many
fields of the photo-sciences and can be a detrimental unwanted side effect, but can also be …

Direct observation of ultrafast excimer formation in covalent perylenediimide dimers using near-infrared transient absorption spectroscopy

KE Brown, WA Salamant, LE Shoer… - The Journal of …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Energy transfer in perylene-3, 4: 9, 10-bis (dicarboximide)(PDI) aggregates is often limited
by formation of a low-energy excimer state. Formation dynamics of excimer states are often …

Excimer formation in cofacial and slip-stacked perylene-3, 4: 9, 10-bis (dicarboximide) dimers on a redox-inactive triptycene scaffold

EA Margulies, LE Shoer, SW Eaton… - Physical Chemistry …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Excitation energy transfer in perylene-3, 4: 9, 10-bis (dicarboximide)(PDI) aggregates is of
interest for light-harvesting applications of this strongly absorbing and π–π stacking …

Fused‐ring induced end‐on orientation in conjugated molecular dyads toward efficient single‐component organic solar cells

D Xia, S Zhou, WL Tan, S Karuthedath, C Xiao… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The molecular orientations of conjugated materials on the substrate mainly include edge‐
on, face‐on, and end‐on. Edge‐on and face‐on orientations have been widely observed …

Thermal-driven phase separation of double-cable polymers enables efficient single-component organic solar cells

G Feng, J Li, Y He, W Zheng, J Wang, C Li, Z Tang… - Joule, 2019 - cell.com
Conventional organic solar cells (OSCs) need two components that function as donor and
acceptor, respectively. Although there has been wishful thinking about constructing OSCs …