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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
卷 113, 期 3, 页码 656-667出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp807249b
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- European Commission [NMP-CT-2006-016434]
- Belgian National Science Foundation (FNRS)
- National Science Foundation [CHE-0712981]
- Robert A. Welch foundation [E-1337]
- J. S. Guggenheim Foundation
- Ministry for Education and Science, Spain
We report combined experimental and theoretical studies of excitation relaxation in poly[2-methoxy,5-(2'ethyl-hexoxy)-1,4-phenylenevinylene] (MEH-PPV), oligophenylenevinylene (OPV) molecules of varying length, and model PPV chains. We build on the paradigm that the basic characteristics of conjugated polymers are decided by conformational subunits defined by conjugation breaks caused by torsional disorder along the chain. The calculations reported here indicate that for conjugated polymers like those in the PPV family, these conformational subunits electronically couple to neighboring subunits, forming subtly delocalized collective states of nanoscale excitons that determine the polymer optical properties. We find that relaxation among these exciton states can lead to a decay of anisotropy on ultrafast time scales. Unlike in Forster energy transfer, the exciton does not necessarily translate over a large distance. Nonetheless, the disorder in the polymer chain means that even small changes in the exciton size or location has a significant effect on the relaxation pathway and therefore the anisotropy decay.
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