Kinetics of the Photoexcited States in Thin Films of Metallo-Supramolecular Polymers With Ditopic Thiophene-Bridged Terpyridine Ligands

Autor: Miroslav Menšík, David Rais, Muhammed Arshad Thottappali, Pinar Güloğlu, Petr Toman, Jiří Vohlídal, Jiří Pfleger
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Frontiers in Chemistry, Vol 9 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2296-2646
DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2021.766121
Popis: Managing the excited-state decay by a supramolecular structure is a crucial issue for organic photovoltaics. We show that in thin films of metallo-supramolecular polymers made of bis(terpyridine-4′-yl)terthiophenes and Zn2+ coupling ions, the photoexcited states generated by ultrashort laser pulses at the wavelength of 440 nm decay by the bi-molecular annihilation predominantly controlled by the Förster transfer between singlet states. During this bi-molecular annihilation of singlet states, intermediate hot triplet pairs are formed, which subsequently dissociate into long-living diffusing triplet states. It explains a significant shortening of the triplet state rise time with increasing pump fluence. The diffusion coefficient of triplets showed power-law time dependence, with its exponent proportional to the pump fluence, decreasing thus the diffusivity of triplets.
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