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Title: Peculiarities in the elementary step of electronic energy transfer in macromolecules

Journal Article · · J. Appl. Spectrosc. (Engl. Transl.); (United States)
OSTI ID:6181885

An electronic energy transfer is an important event among photophysical processes occurring in macromolecules. In macromolecules with aromatic groups in the side chain such transfer occurs via noncoherent excitons, which propagate along the polymer chain via random jumps between adjacent rings and can be described by the random-walk theory. An attempt is made in this work to estimate the limiting distance for singlet and triplet exciton jumps in carbazole- and benzcarbazole-containing macromolecules and also to explain some peculiarities in the elementary step of excitation energy transfer between aromatic groups in macromolecules. Solutions of poly(N-vinylcarbazole) (PVC), poly(N-vinyl-7H-benz/s/carbazole) (PV7BC), copolymers of N-vinylcarbazole and N-vinyl-7H-benz/s/carbazole with octylmethacrylate (VC-OMA and V7BC-OMA), and also a monomolecular analog of the monomer unit, N-ethyl-7H-benz/s/-carbazole (E7BC), were studied.

OSTI ID:
6181885
Journal Information:
J. Appl. Spectrosc. (Engl. Transl.); (United States), Vol. 47:1; Other Information: Translated from Zh. Prikl. Spektrosk.; 47: No. 1, 96-101(Jul 1987)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English