Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

New insights into the design of conjugated polymers for intramolecular singlet fission

  • Jiahua Hu,
  • Ke Xu,
  • Lei Shen,
  • Qin Wu,
  • Guiying He,
  • Jie-Yu Wang,
  • Jian Pei,
  • Jianlong Xia,
  • Matthew Y. Sfeir

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05389-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Further mechanistic insight of intramolecular singlet fission (iSF) in conjugated polymers can enable novel material design for solar cells. Here, the authors use transient spectroscopy to show iSF in an isoindigo-based conjugated polymer and propose a design rule based on morphology-dependent iSF.