Abstract
Three systems were designed, synthesized, and characterized to understand decay processes of photoinduced charge separation in organic semiconductors that are imperative for efficient solar energy conversion. A styrene-based indoline derivative (YD) was used as donor moiety (D), a triazine derivative (TRC) as the first acceptor (A1), and 9,10-anthraquinone (AEAQ) as a second acceptor (A2) in constructing two systems, YD-TRC and YD-TRC-AEAQ. The lifetime of the photoinduced charge-separated states in YD-TRC, a D–A1 system, was found to be 215 ns and that in YD-TRC-AEAQ, a D–A1–A2 system, to be 1.14 μs, a 5-fold increase with respect to that of the YD-TRC. These results show that YD is a more effective donor in YD-TRC and YD-TRC-AEAQ systems at forming long-lived charge-separated states compared to a previously reported atriphenylamine derivative (MTPA) that generated charge-separated states with a lifetime of 80 ns in MTPA-TRC and 650 ns in MTPA-TRC-AEAQ. The third system was constructed using a metal-free...
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