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Deactivation of Excited States in Nanostructures Containing Cu-Porphyrin Subunit

Eduard I. Zenkevich
National Technical University of Belarus, Department of Information Technologies and Robotics, 220013 Minsk, Belarus
E-mail: zenkev@tut.by
 
DOI: 10.6060/mhc160529z
Macroheterocycles 2016 9(2) 121-140
 
Here, we present a semi-review of mutual Belarussian-German collaboration in the field of supramolecular chemistry and photophysics of tetrapyrrole compounds of various types: porphyrin chemical dimers, self-organized multiporphyrin complexes, ordered aggregates of photosynthetic pigments and nanoassemblies based on semiconductor CdSe/ZnS quantum dots and porphyrins. A special attention is paid to various nanostructures containing Cu-porphyrin subunits. Based on steady-state and time-resolved measurements, spectral properties as well as pathways and dynamics of non-radiative relaxation processes with participation of singlet and triplet excited states (energy transfer, photoinduced electron transfer, exchange d-p effects) are the subject of the analysis upon variation of the temperature (77-295 K) and polarity of the solvent. Finally, we consider recent results on “Quantum Dot-Porphyrin” nanoassemblies showing that self-assembly of only one Cu-porphyrin molecule with one CdSe/ZnS quantum dot modifies not only the photoluminescence intensity of quantum dot but creates new energetically clearly distinguishable electronic states opening additional effective relaxation pathways.

 

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