Direct observation of ultrafast coherent exciton dynamics in helical π-stacks of self-assembled perylene bisimides

Jooyoung Sung, Pyosang Kim, Benjamin Fimmel, Frank Würthner () and Dongho Kim ()
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Jooyoung Sung: Yonsei University, 134 Shinchon-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 120-749, Korea
Pyosang Kim: Yonsei University, 134 Shinchon-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 120-749, Korea
Benjamin Fimmel: Institut für Organische Chemie and Center for Nanosystems Chemistry, Universität Würzburg
Frank Würthner: Institut für Organische Chemie and Center for Nanosystems Chemistry, Universität Würzburg
Dongho Kim: Yonsei University, 134 Shinchon-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 120-749, Korea

Nature Communications, 2015, vol. 6, issue 1, 1-7

Abstract: Abstract Ever since the discovery of dye self-assemblies in nature, there have been tremendous efforts to exploit biomimetic supramolecular assemblies for tailored artificial photon processing materials. This feature necessarily has resulted in an increasing demand for understanding exciton dynamics in the dye self-assemblies. In a sharp contrast with J-type aggregates, however, the detailed observation of exciton dynamics in H-type aggregates has remained challenging. In this study, as we succeed in measuring transient fluorescence from Frenkel state of π-stacked perylene tetracarboxylic acid bisimide dimer and oligomer aggregates, we present an experimental demonstration on Frenkel exciton dynamics of archetypal columnar π–π stacks of dyes. The analysis of the vibronic peak ratio of the transient fluorescence spectra reveals that unlike the simple π-stacked dimer, the photoexcitation energy in the columnar π-stacked oligomer aggregates is initially delocalized over at least three molecular units and moves coherently along the chain in tens of femtoseconds, preceding excimer formation process.

Date: 2015
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