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MACROMOLECULES
Volume 33, Issue 14, Pages 5153-5158Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ma000081j
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Quenching of the photoluminescence (PL) emission from conjugated macromolecules by charge transfer to cationic electron accepters is studied by changing the ion concentration in buffered aqueous solutions, by changing the concentration of accepters, and by varying the temperature. A weakly bound complex is formed tin water) between polyanionic conjugated macromolecules and cationic electron accepters with Coulomb binding energy similar to 150 meV. The mean distance between the polymer((-)) and quencher((+)) was estimated as 10 Angstrom, consistent with the effective charge-transfer distance. At high quencher concentrations, quenching by accepters within the sphere-of-action becomes important; a modified Stern-Volmer equation is used to estimate the radius (similar to 400 Angstrom). High-temperature studies of concentrated quencher solutions independently indicate a crossover from static quenching to sphere-of-action quenching with a radius similar to 400 Angstrom. Since the radius is comparable to the radius of gyration of the macromolecule, the high molecular weight of the conjugated polymer enhances the quenching.
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