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 …

Expanded theory of H-and J-molecular aggregates: the effects of vibronic coupling and intermolecular charge transfer

NJ Hestand, FC Spano - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
The electronic excited states of molecular aggregates and their photophysical signatures
have long fascinated spectroscopists and theoreticians alike since the advent of Frenkel …

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 …

Supramolecularly engineered J-aggregates based on perylene bisimide dyes

M Hecht, F Wurthner - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2020 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The discovery of the self-assembly of cyanine dyes into J-aggregates had a
major impact on the development of dye chemistry due to the emergence of new useful …

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 …

Efficient multiexciton state generation in charge-transfer-coupled perylene bisimide dimers via structural control

Y Hong, J Kim, W Kim, C Kaufmann, H Kim… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The singlet fission (SF) process is generally defined as the conversion of one singlet exciton
(S1) into two triplet excitons (2· T1), which has the potential to overcome thermalization …

Leveraging charge-transfer interactions in through-space-coupled pentacene dendritic oligomer for singlet exciton fission

J Kim, HT Teo, Y Hong, YC Liau, D Yim… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Singlet exciton fission in organic chromophores has received much attention during the past
decade. Inspired by numerous spectroscopic studies in the solid state, there have been …

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 …

Perylene diimide-based Hj-and hJ-aggregates: the prospect of exciton band shape engineering in organic materials

A Oleson, T Zhu, IS Dunn, D Bialas, Y Bai… - The Journal of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The exciton band dispersion in π-stacks of conjugated organic chromophores is a critical
factor in determining the photophysical response and transport properties. In such stacks …