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Surface-Assisted Transient Displacement Charge Technique. II. Effect of Gases on Photoinduced Charge Transfer in Self-Assembled Monolayers

Year: 2006

Type: article

Abstract: Surface-assisted photoinduced transient displacement charge (SPTDC) technique was used to study charge transfer in self-assembled monolayers of 7-diethylaminocoumarin covalently linked to an oxide surface in the atmosphere of different gases. The dipole signal was found to be opposite to that in solution and dependent on the nature of the gas and its pressure. The results were explained by collision-induced relaxation that impedes uninhibited tilting of molecules onto the surface. Collisions with paramagnetic oxygen induce intersystem crossing to long-lived triplet dipolar states of coumarin with the rate close to half of that for the collision rate.

Source: The Journal of Physical Chemistry B

DOI: 10.1021/jp060758q

Authors: Alexey V. Krasnoslobodtsev, Sergei N. Smirnov

Institution: New Mexico State University

Language: English

Topic: Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures

Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Awards: G4151662217, SCORE Institutional Development Project at New Mexico State Univ.