Mutual interplay of light harvesting and triplet sensitizing in a perylene bisimide antenna-fullerene dyad

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 114, Issue 28, 2010, Pages 9148-9156

  Hofmann, Christiane C ^a   Lindner, Stefan M ^b   Ruppert, Michaela ^c   Hirsch, Andreas ^c   Haque, Saif A ^d   Thelakkat, Mukundan ^b   Köhler, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ENERGY TRANSFER; HARVESTING; LASER SPECTROSCOPY;

FULLERENE DYADS; INTERSYSTEM CROSSING; LIGHT-HARVESTING; PERYLENE BISIMIDES; TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY; TRIPLET ENERGY TRANSFER; VISIBLE SPECTRAL RANGE; [60] FULLERENE;

FULLERENES;

EID: 77954741205     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp1035585     Document Type: Article

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