Dynamics of excitons in conjugated molecules and organic semiconductor systems

OP Dimitriev - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
The exciton, an excited electron–hole pair bound by Coulomb attraction, plays a key role in
photophysics of organic molecules and drives practically important phenomena such as …

Basic structural modifications for improving the practical properties of BODIPY

NA Bumagina, EV Antina, AA Ksenofontov… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2022 - Elsevier
The review considers the results of research by scientists from different countries in the field
of synthesis and photophysical property study of known BODIPY. We focus on describing the …

BODIPY‐based photodynamic agents for exclusively generating superoxide radical over singlet oxygen

KX Teng, WK Chen, LY Niu, WH Fang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Developing Type‐I photosensitizers is considered as an efficient approach to overcome the
deficiency of traditional photodynamic therapy (PDT) for hypoxic tumors. However, it remains …

Disequilibrating azobenzenes by visible-light sensitization under confinement

J Gemen, JR Church, TP Ruoko, N Durandin… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Photoisomerization of azobenzenes from their stable E isomer to the metastable Z state is
the basis of numerous applications of these molecules. However, this reaction typically …

Charge separation, charge recombination, long-lived charge transfer state formation and intersystem crossing in organic electron donor/acceptor dyads

Y Hou, X Zhang, K Chen, D Liu, Z Wang… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Photo-induced charge separation (CS) and charge recombination (CR) are crucial for
molecular systems used in artificial photosynthesis, photovoltaics, and photocatalysis, and …

Recent development of heavy-atom-free triplet photosensitizers: molecular structure design, photophysics and application

X Zhang, Z Wang, Y Hou, Y Yan, J Zhao… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Triplet photosensitizers (PSs) have attracted much attention in recent years, due to the
significance of these kinds of compounds in fundamental photochemistry studies and …

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 …

Recent progress in heavy atom-free organic compounds showing unexpected intersystem crossing (ISC) ability

J Zhao, K Chen, Y Hou, Y Che, L Liu… - Organic & biomolecular …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
In this review, recent progress in heavy atom-free triplet photosensitizers was summarized.
The general approaches include attaining S1/Tn states sharing similar energy levels or …

Excited-state symmetry-breaking charge separation dynamics in multibranched perylene diimide molecules

J Kong, W Zhang, G Li, D Huo, Y Guo… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
As one of the most promising nonfullerene acceptors for organic photovoltaics, perylene
diimide (PDI)-based multibranched molecules with twisted or three-dimensional (3D) …

Spin-allowed transitions control the formation of triplet excited states in orthogonal donor-acceptor dyads

JT Buck, AM Boudreau, A DeCarmine, RW Wilson… - Chem, 2019 - cell.com
Triplet excited states (triplets) serve as key intermediates in critical technologies and
processes ranging from organic synthesis to biomedicine to molecular electronics …