Towards efficient solid-state triplet-triplet annihilation based photon upconversion: Supramolecular, macromolecular and self-assembled systems
Review article, 2018

Photon upconversion through sensitized Triplet-Triplet Annihilation (TTA-UC) has regained a lot of interest during the last decade mainly due to its potential for significantly increased solar energy harvesting. Other applications such as anti-Stokes fluorescence labels for bio-imaging and drug-targeting have also emerged. Considering practical large scale use of TTA-UC, solid state materials are required. The TTA-UC process depends on a sequence of energy transfer processes and it is a great challenge to maintain high efficiencies while solidifying these diffusion limited energy transfer steps. This review covers the basic, fundamental aspects of TTA-UC, but focuses on the current state of the art of the many attempts to develop solid state based TTA-UC systems. In particular, work aiming at overcoming the diffusion limit though supramolecular, macromolecular or self-assembly approaches are highlighted. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Supramolecular Self-assembly

Photon Upconversiom

Triplet-triplet annihilation

Author

Victor Gray

Chalmers, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Kasper Moth-Poulsen

Chalmers, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Applied Chemistry

Bo Albinsson

Chalmers, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Maria Abrahamsson

Chalmers, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Published in

Coordination Chemistry Reviews

0010-8545 (ISSN)

Vol. 362p. 54-71

Categorizing

Areas of Advance

Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Energy

Materials Science

Subject Categories

Renewable Bioenergy Research

Other Environmental Engineering

Energy Systems

Identifiers

DOI

10.1016/j.ccr.2018.02.011

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