Journal
CHEMPHYSCHEM
Volume 10, Issue 2, Pages 448-454Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/cphc.200800554
Keywords
oligomers; photophysics; polymers; solvent effects; thin films
Funding
- FEDER and FCT [POCI/QUI/55672/2004, POCI/QUI/58291/2004]
- [BPD/34558/2007]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [POCI/QUI/55672/2004] Funding Source: FCT
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The p-phenylenevinylene (PV) trimer (MBOPV3) was used to probe the effect of conformational relaxation on fluorescence decays of PV-based polymers in the high solvent viscosity regime, from n-hexadecane (3.45 cP at 293 K) to liquid paraffin (723 cP at 293 K), and in dilute poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) solid films. The effect of intermolecular energy transfer and radiative transport on the fluorescence decays was also analysed by increasing the concentration of MBOPV3 in the PMMA films up to a pure MBOPV3 film. The rote constant of conformational relaxation was found to decrease with increasing solvent viscosity up to about 23 cP, but then becomes viscosity independent. The non-Stokes-Einstein behaviour of k(CR) versus eta over the whole viscosity range apparently results from the presence of the flexible methylbutyl side chains of MBOPV3, which partially screens the solvent friction, Conformational relaxation is not observed in very dilute PMMA solid films, where the fluorescence decay becomes single exponential. The decays become multi-exponential again with an increase of MBOPV3 concentration in the PMMA films, but in this case it is due to intermolecular (interchain) energy transfer from less planar to more planar conformations of MBOPV3. In the pure MBOPV3 film, interchain energy transfer (radiative and non-radiative) is the major process responsible for the observed (tetra-exponential) decays.
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