화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol.133, No.9, 2844-2847, 2011
Manipulating Photogenerated Radical Ion Pair Lifetimes in Wirelike Molecules Using Microwave Pulses: Molecular Spintronic Gates
We have studied spin-dependent charge transfer dynamics in wirelike, donor-bridge-acceptor (D-B-A)molecules comprising a phenothiazine (PTZ) donor, an oligo(2,7-fluorene) (FLn) bridge, and a perylene-3,4:9,10-bis(dicarboximide) (PDI) acceptor, PTZ-FL3-PDI (1) and PTZ-FL4-PDI (2), dissolved in the magnetic field-aligned nematic phase of 4-cyano-4'-n-pentylbiphenyl (5CB) at 295 K. Time-resolved EPR spectroscopy using both continuous wave and pulsed microwaves shows that the photogenerated radical pairs (RPs), PTZ(+center dot)-FL3-PDI-center dot and PTZ(+center dot)-FL4-PDI-center dot, recombine much faster from the singlet RP manifold than the triplet RP manifold. When a strong resonant microwave pi pulse is applied following RP photogeneration in 1 and 2, the RP lifetimes increase about 50-fold as indicated by electron spin-echo detection. This result shows that the RP lifetime can be greatly extended by rapidly switching off fast triplet RP recombination.