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ArticleNature communications2021

Singlet exciton fission in a modified acene with improved stability and high photoluminescence yield.

Peter J Budden, Leah R Weiss, Matthias Müller, Naitik A Panjwani, Simon Dowland, Jesse R Allardice, Michael Ganschow, Jan Freudenberg, Jan Behrends, Uwe H F Bunz and 1 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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  1. The Lowest Excited State of Heptacenes Is Dark.The journal of physical chemistry letters · 2025
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  2. Computational Discovery of Intermolecular Singlet Fission Materials Using Many-Body Perturbation Theory.The journal of physical chemistry. C, Nanomaterials and interfaces · 2024
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  4. Aza-Cibalackrot: Turning on Singlet Fission Through Crystal Engineering.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2023
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11 authors.

Peter J BuddenCavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, JJ Thompson Avenue, Cambridge, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8049-3401
Leah R WeissCavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, JJ Thompson Avenue, Cambridge, UK.
Matthias MüllerOrganisch-Chemisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 270, Heidelberg, Germany.
Naitik A PanjwaniBerlin Joint EPR Lab, Fachbereich Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2913-5377
Simon DowlandCavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, JJ Thompson Avenue, Cambridge, UK.
Jesse R AllardiceCavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, JJ Thompson Avenue, Cambridge, UK.
Michael GanschowOrganisch-Chemisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 270, Heidelberg, Germany.
Jan FreudenbergOrganisch-Chemisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 270, Heidelberg, Germany.
Jan BehrendsBerlin Joint EPR Lab, Fachbereich Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany. j.behrends@fu-berlin.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1024-428X
Uwe H F BunzOrganisch-Chemisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 270, Heidelberg, Germany. uwe.bunz@oci.uni-heidelberg.de.
Richard H FriendCavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, JJ Thompson Avenue, Cambridge, UK. rhf10@cam.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6565-6308

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) EXC 2008 - 390540038Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) SFB 1249RCUK | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) EP/M005143/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report a fully efficient singlet exciton fission material with high ambient chemical stability. 10,21-Bis(triisopropylsilylethynyl)tetrabenzo[a,c,l,n]pentacene (TTBP) combines an acene core with triphenylene wings that protect the formal pentacene from chemical degradation. The electronic energy levels position singlet exciton fission to be endothermic, similar to tetracene despite the triphenylenes. TTBP exhibits rapid early time singlet fission with quantitative yield of triplet pairs within 100 ps followed by thermally activated separation to free triplet excitons over 65 ns. TTBP exhibits high photoluminescence quantum efficiency, close to 100% when dilute and 20% for solid films, arising from triplet-triplet annihilation. In using such a system for exciton multiplication in a solar cell, maximum thermodynamic performance requires radiative decay of the triplet population, observed here as emission from the singlet formed by recombination of triplet pairs. Combining chemical stabilisation with efficient endothermic fission provides a promising avenue towards singlet fission materials for use in photovoltaics.

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PMCPMC7943798

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