The energy barrier in singlet fission can be overcome through coherent coupling and entropic gain

Nature Chemistry

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 840-845

  Chan, Wai Lun ^a   Ligges, Manuel ^a,b   Zhu, X Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

NAPHTHACENE; NAPHTHACENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; ENTROPY; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLAR ENERGY; TEMPERATURE;

ELECTRONS; ENTROPY; NAPHTHACENES; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLAR ENERGY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84866933189     PISSN: 17554330     EISSN: 17554349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1436     Document Type: Article

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