Abstract
We report the photophysical properties of the dicarboxylated diphenylisobenzofuran dye (1) bound to nanocrystalline metal oxide surfaces. With increased surface loading of 1, emission from the films is significantly quenched but with a small amount of excimer emission at maximum surface loadings. Long-lived triplets were observed by ns TA spectroscopy that are consistent with singlet fission occurring on mesoporous ZrO2. The evolution of these triplets, however, could not be convincingly resolved by our subnanosecond TA spectroscopy. Dye-sensitized devices composed of 1 on a TiO2|Al2O3 core–shell structure exhibited an unusual decrease, increase, and then decrease in Jsc with respect to the thickness of Al2O3. In these films the Al2O3 acts as a tunneling barrier to slow electron injection from the singlet excited state such that singlet fission, and electron injection from the triplet state becomes competitive. Proof-of-principle self-assembled bilayer films that exhibit efficient triplet energy transfer ...
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