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Effect of Hydrophilicity-Imparting Substituents on Exciton Delocalization in Squaraine Dye Aggregates Covalently Templated to DNA Holliday Junctions

Journal Article · · Nanoscale
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1039/d3nr04499h· OSTI ID:2234233
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  1. Boise State University, ID (United States); Boise State University
  2. Boise State University, ID (United States)
  3. State Scientific Institution “Institute for Single Crystals” of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv (Ukraine)
  4. SETA BioMedicals, LLC, Urbana, IL (United States)
  5. Boise State University, ID (United States); Center for Advanced Energy Studies, Idaho Falls, ID (United States)

Molecular aggregates exhibit emergent properties, including the collective sharing of electronic excitation energy known as exciton delocalization, that can be leveraged in applications such as quantum computing, optical information processing, and light harvesting. In a previous study, we found unexpectedly large excitonic interactions (quantified by the excitonic hopping parameter Jm,n) in DNA-templated aggregates of squaraine (SQ) dyes with hydrophilic-imparting sulfo and butylsulfo substituents. Here, we characterize DNA Holliday junction (DNA-HJ) templated aggregates of an expanded set of SQs and evaluate their optical properties in the context of structural heterogeneity. Specifically, we characterized the orientation of and Jm,n between dyes in dimer aggregates of non-chlorinated and chlorinated SQs. Here, three new chlorinated SQs that feature a varying number of butylsulfo substituents were synthesized and attached to a DNA-HJ via a covalent linker to form adjacent and transverse dimers. Various characteristics of the dye, including its hydrophilicity (in terms of log Po/w) and surface area, and of the substituents, including their local bulkiness and electron withdrawing capacity, were quantified computationally.

Research Organization:
Boise State University, ID (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) program; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division (MSE)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0020089
OSTI ID:
2234233
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 2246680
Journal Information:
Nanoscale, Journal Name: Nanoscale Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 16; ISSN 2040-3364
Publisher:
Royal Society of ChemistryCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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