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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Pitfalls of quantifying intersystem crossing rates in singlet-fission chromophore solutions |
Author: | Stuart, A.N. Tapping, P. Kee, T. Huang, D.M. |
Citation: | Journal of Chemical Physics, 2022; 157(8):1-12 |
Publisher: | AIP Publishing |
Issue Date: | 2022 |
ISSN: | 0021-9606 1089-7690 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Alexandra N. Stuart, Patrick C. Tapping, Tak W. Kee, and David M. Huang |
Abstract: | Singlet fission (SF), a process that produces two triplet excitons from one singlet exciton, has attracted recent interest for its potential to circumvent the detailed-balance efficiency limit of single-junction solar cells. For the potential of SF to be fully realized, accurate assignment and quantification of SF is necessary. Intersystem crossing (ISC) is another process of singlet to triplet conversion that is important to distinguish from SF to avoid either over- or under-estimation of SF triplet production. Here, we quantify an upper bound on the rate of ISC in two commonly studied SF chromophores, TIPS–pentacene and TIPS–tetracene, by using transient absorption spectroscopy of solutions of varying concentrations in toluene. We show that SF in solutions of these acenes has previously been misidentified as ISC, and vice versa. By determining a bimolecular SF rate constant in concentrated solutions in which SF dominates over ISC, we distinguish triplet formation due to SF from triplet formation due to ISC and show that the characteristic time scale of ISC must be longer than 325 ns in TIPS–pentacene, while it must be longer than 118 ns in TIPS–tetracene. We additionally note that no excimer formation is observed in the relatively dilute (up to 8 mM) solutions studied here, indicating that previous excimer formation observed at much higher concentrations may be partially due to aggregate formation. This work highlights that an accurate quantification of ISC is crucial as it leads to accurate determination of SF rate constants and yields. |
Keywords: | Reaction rate constants; Triplet state; Kinetics and dynamics; Detection limit; Excitons; Transient-absorption spectroscopy |
Rights: | © 2022 Author(s) AIP Publishing |
DOI: | 10.1063/5.0100619 |
Grant ID: | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP160103797 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/LE0989747 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/LE200100051 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0100619 |
Appears in Collections: | Chemistry and Physics publications |
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