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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 14, Issue 1, Pages 273-279Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c1cp22122a
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- CNRS
- University of Strasbourg
- Region Alsace
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Ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy is performed on a novel donor-acceptor-donor triad made of two identical bisthiophene derivatives as electron donors and a central perylenediimide moiety as electron acceptor. The triad is extended at both ends by covalently bound siloxane chains that confer self-organisation into thin smectic films at ambient temperature. When diluted in chloroform, selective excitation of the donor moiety leads to resonance energy transfer within 130 fs to the acceptor moiety, followed by the formation of a charge transfer (CT) state in similar to 3 ps. The CT state recombines entirely on a 55 ps time scale. In the liquid crystal films, excitonic intermolecular coupling leads to significant changes in the dynamics. Most remarkably, ultrafast intra-and intermolecular CT state formation occurs in about 60 fs, i.e. on a time scale comparable to electronic coherence times. While the intra-molecular CT states recombine on the same time scale as in solution or even faster, inter-molecular CT states live for about 1 ns. Last, triplet states of the perylenediimide moiety dominate the differential absorption after similar to 1 ns. We anticipate that the fast recombination of intra-molecular CT states and the triplet state formation may severely limit the photo-current in these materials.
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