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Efficient singlet fission and triplet-pair emission in a family of zethrene diradicaloids Steven Lukman, Johannes M. Richter, Le Yang, Pan Hu, Jishan Wu, Neil C. Greenham, and Andrew J. Musser J. Am. Chem. Soc., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b10762 • Publication Date (Web): 22 Nov 2017 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on November 22, 2017
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Efficient singlet fission and triplet-pair emission in a family of zethrene diradicaloids Steven Lukman†^, Johannes M. Richter†, Le Yang†, Pan Hu§, Jishan Wu§^*, Neil C. Greenham†* and Andrew J. Musser//* †
Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom Institute of Materials Research and Engineering. Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR), 2 Fusionoplis Way, 138634, Singapore § Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive, 117543, Singapore // Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S3 7RH, United Kingdom KEYWORDS singlet fission, correlated triplet pair, diradicaloid, zethrene ^
ABSTRACT: Singlet fission offers the potential to overcome thermodynamic limits in solar cells by converting the energy of a single absorbed photon into two distinct triplet excitons. However, progress is limited by the small family of suitable materials, and new chromophore design principles are needed. Here, we experimentally vindicate the design concept of diradical stabilisation, in a tuneable family of functionalised zethrenes. All molecules in the series exhibit rapid formation of a bound, spin-entangled tripletpair state TT. It can be dissociated by thermally activated triplet hopping and exhibits surprisingly strong emission for an optically ‘dark’ state, further enhanced with increasing diradical character. We find that the TT excited-state absorption spectral shape correlates with the binding energy between constituent triplets, providing a new tool to understand this unusual state. Our results reveal a versatile new family of tuneable materials with excellent optical and photochemical properties for exploitation in singlet fission devices.
Introduction Singlet fission (SF) is an exciton multiplication phenomenon in organic semiconductors where one spin-singlet exciton transforms into two spin-triplet excitons, conserving spin1-2 in a process that can be ultrafast (
