Issue 2, 2015

Solid state concentration quenching of organic fluorophores in PMMA

Abstract

In this study the concentration quenching phenomenon is explored for seven organic singlet emitters (Rhodamine 6G, Pyridine 2, Lumogen F Red 305, Perylene, Coumarin 102, DCM and DCJTB) in an inert host of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA). Combining fluorescence lifetime and quantum yield measurements on samples of different molecular separation allows a deep decay rate analysis to be performed yielding, for each fluorophore, a monomial power law that indicates the strength and type of interaction. The fluorophores studied exhibit interactions in between that of FRET-like dipole–dipole (R−6) and surface–surface (R−2) with many lying close to that expected for surface–dipole (R−3) interactions. With no observed dependence on molecular structure it is concluded that the concentration quenching rate in singlet emitters follows a power law as kCQ = aR−3.1±0.7 with aggregation expected to increase the magnitude of the observed power.

Graphical abstract: Solid state concentration quenching of organic fluorophores in PMMA

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
12 Nov 2014
Accepted
21 Nov 2014
First published
21 Nov 2014
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015,17, 1435-1440

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Solid state concentration quenching of organic fluorophores in PMMA

A. P. Green and A. R. Buckley, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015, 17, 1435 DOI: 10.1039/C4CP05244G

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