Dissecting the effect of morphology on the rates of singlet fission: Insights from theory

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 34, 2014, Pages 19608-19617

  Feng, Xintian ^a   Kolomeisky, Anatoly B ^b   Krylov, Anna I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOPHORES; COUPLINGS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

ELECTRONIC COUPLING; ENERGY DIFFERENCES; FORM FEATURES; KINETIC MODELING; LOW TEMPERATURES; RELATIVE RATES; SINGLET FISSIONS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; STACKED CONFIGURATION;

TITRATION;

EID: 84906861621     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp505942k     Document Type: Article

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