Title
Triplet Transfer Mediates Triplet Pair Separation during Singlet Fission in 6,13-Bis(triisopropylsilylethynyl)-Pentacene
Date Issued
08 December 2017
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Grieco C.
Doucette G.S.
Munro J.M.
Kennehan E.R.
Lee Y.
Rimshaw A.
Payne M.M.
Wonderling N.
Anthony J.E.
Dabo I.
Asbury J.B.
The Pennsylvania State University
Publisher(s)
Wiley-VCH Verlag
Abstract
Triplet population dynamics of solution cast films of isolated polymorphs of 6,13-bis(triisopropylsilylethynyl) pentacene (TIPS-Pn) provide quantitative experimental evidence that triplet excitation energy transfer is the dominant mechanism for correlated triplet pair (CTP) separation during singlet fission. Variations in CTP separation rates are compared for polymorphs of TIPS-Pn with their triplet diffusion characteristics that are controlled by their crystal structures. Since triplet energy transfer is a spin-forbidden process requiring direct wavefunction overlap, simple calculations of electron and hole transfer integrals are used to predict how molecular packing arrangements would influence triplet transfer rates. The transfer integrals reveal how differences in the packing arrangements affect electronic interactions between pairs of TIPS-Pn molecules, which are correlated with the relative rates of CTP separation in the polymorphs. These findings suggest that relatively simple computations in conjunction with measurements of molecular packing structures may be used as screening tools to predict a priori whether new types of singlet fission sensitizers have the potential to undergo fast separation of CTP states to form multiplied triplets.
Volume
27
Issue
46
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias naturales
Química
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85037547593
Source
Advanced Functional Materials
ISSN of the container
1616301X
Sponsor(s)
C.G. and G.S.D. contributed equally to this work. C.G., G.S.D., A.R., and J.B.A. thank the Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences, Office of Basic Energy Sciences of the U.S. Department of Energy through Grant DE-SC0008120 for support of this work. I.D. acknowledges support from the Soltis faculty support award and the Ralph E. Powe junior faculty award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities. J.E.A. and M.M.P. thank the National Science Foundation (CMMI-1255494) for supporting semiconductor synthesis. Y.L. and E.D.G. acknowledge financial support from the Office of Naval Research under Grant N000141410532. The Advanced Light Source is an Office of Science User Facility operated for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC02-05CH11231. C.G. thanks Ryan Pensack, Geoff Purdum, and Brian Conway for helpful discussions.
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