Journal
CHEMPHYSCHEM
Volume 13, Issue 4, Pages 901-907Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201100770
Keywords
chromophores; photophysics; polymers; semiconducting materials; single molecules
Funding
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation
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What is the physical shape of the p-electron system in a large macromolecule such as a conjugated polymer? Although intuitively one may argue that any departure from rigidity by bending or twisting should disrupt conjugation, leading to the formation of discrete chromophores, single-molecule and ensemble time-resolved studies support the notion that the p-bond is remarkably persistent in space: even individual chromophores can be bent and twisted, so that caution is warranted when interpreting a wide range of polarisation-based spectroscopies.
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