Proceedings of International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV18)
Publication date: 21st February 2018
The intrinsic ability of fullerene derivatives to undergo intersystem crossing (ISC) makes them good candidates for application in processes such as photocatalysis, Triplet-Triplet Annihilation (TTA) upconversion and photodynamic therapy, where efficient triplet formation is advantageous. The functionalization of fullerene with organic antennas featuring high extinction coefficients in the visible allows efficient light harvesting and the possibility of inducing an energy cascade that will end up in the fullerene moiety. A common issue with this strategy is that both forward and back energy transfer (BET) are energetically possible, therefore reducing the overall efficiency of the process. We propose a strategy to avoid BET by exploiting π-π interactions between the chromophore and fullerene that induce a conformation in which through-space energy transfer is enabled.
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