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Acceptor Side-Chain Effects on the Excited State Dynamics of Two-Dimensional-Like Conjugated Copolymers in Solution

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Ming-Ming Huo
1,*,
Rong Hu
2,
Wei Yan
1,
Yi-Tong Wang
1,3,
Kuan W. A. Chee
1,3,
Yong Wang
1 and
Jian-Ping Zhang
4
1
Qingdao Research Center for Advanced Photonic Technologies, Laser Research Institute, Shandong Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266100, China
2
Research Institute for New Materials Technology, Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences, Chongqing 402160, China
3
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Ningbo 315100, China
4
Department of Chemistry, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China
*
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Molecules 2017, 22(9), 1398; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules22091398
Received: 14 June 2017 / Accepted: 18 August 2017 / Published: 25 August 2017
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Photoresponsive Polymers)
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Excited state dynamics of two-dimensional-like conjugated copolymers PFDCN and PFSDCN based on alternating fluorene and triphenylamine main chains and malononitrile pendant acceptor groups with thiophene as π-bridge, have been investigated by using transient absorption spectroscopy. There is an additional conjugated –C=C– bond in PFDCN, which distinguishes it from PFSDCN. The lowest energy absorption band of each copolymer absorption spectrum is attributed to the π−π* transition with intramolecular charge-transfer, which has a lower fluorescence contribution than those of higher energy absorption bands. The optical excitation of either PFDCN or PFSDCN solution generates polaron pairs that then self-localize and evolve to a bound singlet exciton within a few picoseconds. Due to the additional conjugated –C=C– bond in the acceptor side-chain, PFDCN has a stronger intramolecular charge-transfer characteristic compared with PFSDCN, therefore exhibiting a longer self-localization time (7 ps vs. 3 ps for PFSDCN) and a shorter fluorescence lifetime (1.48 ns vs. 1.60 ns for PFSDCN). View Full-Text
Keywords: two-dimensional like conjugated copolymers; acceptor side-chain; transient absorption spectrum; intramolecular charge-transfer characters; excited state dynamics two-dimensional like conjugated copolymers; acceptor side-chain; transient absorption spectrum; intramolecular charge-transfer characters; excited state dynamics
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Huo, M.-M.; Hu, R.; Yan, W.; Wang, Y.-T.; Chee, K.W.A.; Wang, Y.; Zhang, J.-P. Acceptor Side-Chain Effects on the Excited State Dynamics of Two-Dimensional-Like Conjugated Copolymers in Solution. Molecules 2017, 22, 1398. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules22091398

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Huo M-M, Hu R, Yan W, Wang Y-T, Chee KWA, Wang Y, Zhang J-P. Acceptor Side-Chain Effects on the Excited State Dynamics of Two-Dimensional-Like Conjugated Copolymers in Solution. Molecules. 2017; 22(9):1398. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules22091398

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Huo, Ming-Ming, Rong Hu, Wei Yan, Yi-Tong Wang, Kuan W.A. Chee, Yong Wang, and Jian-Ping Zhang. 2017. "Acceptor Side-Chain Effects on the Excited State Dynamics of Two-Dimensional-Like Conjugated Copolymers in Solution" Molecules 22, no. 9: 1398. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules22091398

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