Journal
PHOTOCHEMICAL & PHOTOBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 4, Issue 1, Pages 95-99Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b417753n
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Fluorescence spectroscopy was performed on single molecules of two 9,9-dialkylfluorene-benzothiadazole (FxBT) copolymers with a 10-fold difference in average molecular weight. Molecules of both polymers exhibit red-shifted emission indicative of energy migration to low-energy sites (LES) on the polymer chains; however, red spectra are much more common for the longer polymer. Since singlet-exciton migration is found to occur on the molecular length scale in both cases, the increased number of red-shifted spectra observed for the longer polymer is evidence that the likelihood of LES formation increases with chain length. This relationship is discussed in terms of three possible causes of low-energy sites: local polymer conformations, chromophores with extended conjugation lengths, and random chemical defects.
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