Does supramolecular ordering influence exciton transport in conjugated systems? Insight from atomistic simulations

Chemical Science

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1025-1032

  Papadopoulos, Theodoros A ^a,d   Muccioli, Luca ^b   Athanasopoulos, Stavros ^c   Walker, Alison B ^a   Zannoni, Claudio ^b   Beljonne, David ^c  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMISTIC MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS; CONJUGATED SYSTEMS; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; ENERGY DIFFUSION PROCESS; EXCITON TRANSPORT; EXCITONIC COUPLING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; ISOTROPIC PHASE; LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE; ORGANIC MATERIALS; ORIENTATIONAL DISORDER; QUANTUM-CHEMICAL CALCULATION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SMECTIC PHASE; SPECTRAL OVERLAP; SUPRAMOLECULAR ARRANGEMENT; SUPRAMOLECULAR ORDERING; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; LIQUIDS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OLIGOMERS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY;

EXCITONS;

EID: 79957836534     PISSN: 20416520     EISSN: 20416539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c0sc00467g     Document Type: Article

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