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Investigations of excitation energy transfer and intramolecular interactions in a nitrogen corded distrylbenzene dendrimer system

Varnavski, O.; Samuel, I.D.W.; Palsson, L.-O.; Beavington, R.; Burn, P.L.; Goodson, T.

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Authors

O. Varnavski

I.D.W. Samuel

R. Beavington

P.L. Burn

T. Goodson



Abstract

The photophysics of an amino-styrylbenzene dendrimer (A-DSB) system is probed by time-resolved and steady state luminescence spectroscopy. For two different generations of this dendrimer, steady state absorption, emission, and photoluminescence excitation spectra are reported and show that the efficiency of energy transfer from the dendrons to the core is very close to 100%. Ultrafast time-resolved fluorescence measurements at a range of excitation and detection wavelengths suggest rapid (and hence efficient) energy transfer from the dendron to the core. Ultrafast fluorescence anisotropy decay for different dendrimer generations is described in order to probe the energy migration processes. A femtosecond time-scale fluorescence depolarization was observed with the zero and second generation dendrimers. Energy transfer process from the dendrons to the core can be described by a Förster mechanism (hopping dynamics) while the interbranch interaction in A-DSB core was found to be very strong indicating the crossover to exciton dynamics.

Citation

Varnavski, O., Samuel, I., Palsson, L., Beavington, R., Burn, P., & Goodson, T. (2002). Investigations of excitation energy transfer and intramolecular interactions in a nitrogen corded distrylbenzene dendrimer system. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 116(20), 8893-8903. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1471241

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date 2002-05
Deposit Date Dec 13, 2006
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Journal of Chemical Physics
Print ISSN 0021-9606
Electronic ISSN 1089-7690
Publisher American Institute of Physics
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 116
Issue 20
Pages 8893-8903
DOI https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1471241
Keywords Resolved fluorescence anisotropy, Light-harvesting complex, Organic dendrimer, Polarized fluorescence, Dynamics, Macromolecules, Localization, Chromophore, Stilbene, Probe.

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Varnavski, O. and Samuel, I. D. W. and Palsson, L. O. and Beavington, R. and Burn, P. L. and Goodson, T. (2002) 'Investigations of excitation energy transfer and intramolecular interactions in a nitrogen corded distrylbenzene dendrimer system.', Journal of chemical physics., 116 (20). pp. 8893-8903.

and may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1471241





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