High-Symmetry Anthradithiophene Molecular Packing Motifs Promote Thermally Activated Singlet Fission

Nanoscopic mechanisms of singlet fission in amorphous molecular solid

Weiwei Mou, Shinnosuke Hattori, Pankaj Rajak, Fuyuki Shimojo, and Aiichiro Nakano Collaboratory for Advanced Computing and Simulations, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Computer Science, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0242, USA Department of Physics, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto 860-85...

High Efficiency organic Multilayer Photodetectors based on singlet Fission

Singlet fission in pentacene dimers.

Singlet fission (SF) has the potential to supersede the traditional solar energy conversion scheme by means of boosting the photon-to-current conversion efficiencies beyond the 30% Shockley-Queisser limit. Here, we show unambiguous and compelling evidence for unprecedented intramolecular SF within regioisomeric pentacene dimers in room-temperature solutions, with observed triplet quantum yields...

Intra- to Intermolecular Singlet Fission

Singlet fission, the splitting of one singlet into two triplets, can potentially increase the efficiency of optoelectronic devices beyond conventional limits. Among the singlet fission molecules discovered to date, two mechanisms have emerged: intraor intermolecular singlet fission. Here we show a combined intrato intermolecular singlet fission mechanism in the model system of diphenyl-dicyano-...

Thermally activated TRP channels: molecular sensors for temperature detection.

Temperature sensing is one of the oldest capabilities of living organisms, and is essential for sustaining life, because failure to avoid extreme noxious temperatures can result in tissue damage or death. A subset of members of the transient receptor potential (TRP) ion channel family is finely tuned to detect temperatures ranging from extreme cold to noxious heat, giving rise to thermoTRP chan...