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MATERIALS CHEMISTRY FRONTIERS
Volume 2, Issue 2, Pages 281-290Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7qm00439g
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- FEDER (Fundo Europeu de Desenvol-vimento Regional) through COMPETE (Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade)
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (FCT)
- Portuguese Agency for Scientific Research, through the program [UID/QUI/UI0313/2013]
- European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), through COMPETE - Operational Program for Competitiveness and Internationalization (OPCI) [POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016387]
- national funds, through FCT
- Laserlab-Europe [284464]
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A comprehensive characterization of the electronic excited states of an alternating donor-acceptor indigo-[didodecyl-cyclopentadithiophene] copolymer (IndC(12)CPDT) together with a model compound (with one indigo unit and two C12CPDT units) was undertaken. The two chromophoric units of the copolymer, indigo and C12CPDT, were independently investigated. The study encompasses qualitative absorption, fluorescence, phosphorescence emission and transient singlet-singlet and triplet-singlet difference spectra, together with quantitative measurements of quantum yields and lifetimes. The excited state dynamics of the trimeric model compound and copolymer was investigated in solution and in the solid state. Namely the competition of conformation relaxation processes with energy transfer/migration between the didodecyl-cyclopentadithiophene moiety (donor) and indigo (acceptor) units, together with the occurrence of fast excited state proton transfer (ESPT, from the N-H to the C=O group of indigo units), was observed. Our results demonstrate that ESPT and intrachain energy transfer are competitive processes in the IndC(12)CPDT copolymer excited state both in solution and in the solid state while conformational relaxation was found to be absent.
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