Oxygen-catalysed sequential singlet fission

Singlet fission is a promising carrier multiplication process, where a singlet exciton is split in two triplet states. Here the authors propose an oxygen-assisted two-step mechanism for singlet fission accounting for ~ 40% triplet quantum yield in dilute solutions where the single-step mechanism is...

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Main Authors: Nikolaus Wollscheid, J. Luis Pérez Lustres, Oskar Kefer, Sebastian Hahn, Victor Brosius, Uwe H. F. Bunz, Marcus Motzkus, Tiago Buckup
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13202-5