Modulation of Visible Room Temperature Phosphorescence by Weak

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Modulation of Visible Room Temperature Phosphorescence by Weak Magnetic Fields Tomoyasu Mani,† Mana Tanabe,‡ Seigo Yamauchi,‡ Nikolai V. Tkachenko,§ and Sergei A. Vinogradov*,† †

Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan § Department of Chemistry and Bioengineering, Tampere University of Technology, FIN-33101 Tampere, Finland. ‡

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ABSTRACT: Magnetic control over excited states of molecules presents interest for many applications. Here we show for the first time that visible room temperature phosphorescence in multichromophoric donor−acceptor systems can be modulated by weak magnetic fields (