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 …

Fluorescent cyclophanes and their applications

I Roy, AHG David, PJ Das, JP David… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
With the serendipitous discovery of crown ethers by Pedersen more than half a century ago
and the subsequent introduction of host–guest chemistry and supramolecular chemistry by …

Perspectives in dye chemistry: a rational approach toward functional materials by understanding the aggregate state

D Bialas, E Kirchner, MIS Röhr… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The past 20 years have witnessed a renaissance of dye chemistry, moving from traditional
colorant research toward functional materials. Different from traditional colorant research …

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 …

Near‐Infrared Self‐Assembled Hydroxyl Radical Generator Based on Photoinduced Cascade Electron Transfer for Hypoxic Tumor Phototherapy

X Zhao, S He, J Wang, J Ding, S Zong, G Li… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The hydroxyl radical (• OH) is an extremely potent reactive oxygen species that plays a
crucial role in photooxidations within the realm of hypoxic tumor therapy. However, the …

Null exciton-coupled chromophoric dimer exhibits symmetry-breaking charge separation

E Sebastian, M Hariharan - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
A comprehensive understanding of the structure–property relationships in
multichromophoric architectures has pushed the limits for developing robust photosynthetic …

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 …

Ultrafast symmetry-breaking charge separation in a perylene bisimide dimer enabled by vibronic coupling and breakdown of adiabaticity

Y Hong, F Schlosser, W Kim… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Perylene bisimides (PBIs) have received great attention in their applicability to
optoelectronics. Especially, symmetry-breaking charge separation (SB-CS) in PBIs has been …

High-Efficiency Photoinduced Charge Separation in Fe (III) carbene Thin Films

M Zhang, CE Johnson, A Ilic, J Schwarz… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Symmetry-breaking charge separation in molecular materials has attracted increasing
attention for optoelectronics based on single-material active layers. To this end, Fe (III) …

Harvesting electrons and holes from photodriven symmetry-breaking charge separation within a perylenediimide photosynthetic model dimer

JM Bradley, AF Coleman, PJ Brown… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding how to utilize symmetry-breaking charge separation (SB-CS) offers a path
toward increasingly efficient light-harvesting technologies. This process plays a central role …