Mapping Structure-Property Relationships of Organic Color Centers

doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chempr.2018.06.013

Title: Mapping Structure-Property Relationships of Organic Color Centers

Abstract

Organic color centers are an emergent class of quantum emitters that hold vast potential for applications in bioimaging, chemical sensing, and quantum information processing. Here in this work, we show that these synthetic color centers follow interesting structure-property relationships through comparative spectral studies of 14 purified single-walled carbon nanotube chiralities and 30 different functional groups that vary in electron-withdrawing capability and bonding configurations. The defect emission is tunable by as much as 400 meV in the near-infrared as a function of host structure and the chemical nature of the color centers. However, the emission energy is nearly free from chiral angle and family patterns of the nanotube host (although this strongly depends on the nanotube diameter), suggesting that a trapped exciton at the organic color centers to some degree electronically decouples from the one-dimensional semiconductor host. In conclusion, our findings provide important insights for designing and controlling this new family of synthetic color centers.

Authors:

Kim, Mijin ^[1]; Wu, Xiaojian ^[1]; Ao, Geyou ^[2];

^[3]; Kwon, Hyejin ^[1]; Nartmann, Nicolai F. ^[3]; Zheng, Ming ^[2];

^[3];

^[1]

Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD (United States)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Publication Date:: 2018-07-19

Research Org.:: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC); USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program

OSTI Identifier:: 1479937

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-18-22254
Journal ID: ISSN 2451-9294

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396

Resource Type:: Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Chem

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 4; Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 2451-9294

Publisher:: Cell Press, Elsevier

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; Material Science

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                    Kim, Mijin, Wu, Xiaojian, Ao, Geyou, He, Xiaowei, Kwon, Hyejin, Nartmann, Nicolai F., Zheng, Ming, Doorn, Stephen K., and Wang, YuHuang. Mapping Structure-Property Relationships of Organic Color Centers.  United States: N. p., 2018. 
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                    Kim, Mijin, Wu, Xiaojian, Ao, Geyou, He, Xiaowei, Kwon, Hyejin, Nartmann, Nicolai F., Zheng, Ming, Doorn, Stephen K., & Wang, YuHuang. Mapping Structure-Property Relationships of Organic Color Centers.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chempr.2018.06.013

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                    Kim, Mijin, Wu, Xiaojian, Ao, Geyou, He, Xiaowei, Kwon, Hyejin, Nartmann, Nicolai F., Zheng, Ming, Doorn, Stephen K., and Wang, YuHuang. Thu .  
        "Mapping Structure-Property Relationships of Organic Color Centers".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chempr.2018.06.013.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1479937.

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@article{osti_1479937,

  title        = {Mapping Structure-Property Relationships of Organic Color Centers},

  author       = {Kim, Mijin and Wu, Xiaojian and Ao, Geyou and He, Xiaowei and Kwon, Hyejin and Nartmann, Nicolai F. and Zheng, Ming and Doorn, Stephen K. and Wang, YuHuang},

  abstractNote = {Organic color centers are an emergent class of quantum emitters that hold vast potential for applications in bioimaging, chemical sensing, and quantum information processing. Here in this work, we show that these synthetic color centers follow interesting structure-property relationships through comparative spectral studies of 14 purified single-walled carbon nanotube chiralities and 30 different functional groups that vary in electron-withdrawing capability and bonding configurations. The defect emission is tunable by as much as 400 meV in the near-infrared as a function of host structure and the chemical nature of the color centers. However, the emission energy is nearly free from chiral angle and family patterns of the nanotube host (although this strongly depends on the nanotube diameter), suggesting that a trapped exciton at the organic color centers to some degree electronically decouples from the one-dimensional semiconductor host. In conclusion, our findings provide important insights for designing and controlling this new family of synthetic color centers.},

  doi          = {10.1016/j.chempr.2018.06.013},

  url          = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1479937},
  journal      = {Chem},

  issn         = {2451-9294},

  number       = 9,

  volume       = 4,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2018},

  month        = {7}

}

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Single-defect spectroscopy in the shortwave infrared
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Influence of local strain caused by cycloaddition on the band gap control of functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes
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RSC Advances, Vol. 9, Issue 25
https://doi.org/10.1039/c9ra02183c

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