TY - JOUR
T1 - High performance optical oxygen sensors based on iridium complexes exhibiting interchromophore energy shuttling
AU - Medina-rodríguez, Santiago
AU - Denisov, Sergey A.
AU - Cudré, Yanouk
AU - Male, Louise
AU - Marín-suárez, Marta
AU - Fernández-gutiérrez, Alberto
AU - Fernández-sánchez, Jorge F.
AU - Tron, Arnaud
AU - Jonusauskas, Gediminas
AU - Mcclenaghan, Nathan D.
AU - Baranoff, Etienne
PY - 2016/5/21
Y1 - 2016/5/21
N2 - A doubly pyrene-grafted bis-cyclometallated iridium complex with engineered electronically excited states demonstrates reversible electronic energy transfer between adjacent chromophores giving rise to extremely long-lived red luminescence in solution (τ = 480 μs). Time-resolved spectroscopic studies afforded determination of pertinent photophysical parameters including rates of energy transfer and energy distribution between constituent chromophores in the equilibrated excited molecule (ca. 98% on the organic chromophores). Incorporation into a nanostructured metal–oxide matrix (AP200/19) gave highly sensitive O2 sensing films, as the detection sensitivity was 200–300% higher than with the commonly used PtTFPP and approaches the sensitivity of the best O2-sensing dyes reported to date.
AB - A doubly pyrene-grafted bis-cyclometallated iridium complex with engineered electronically excited states demonstrates reversible electronic energy transfer between adjacent chromophores giving rise to extremely long-lived red luminescence in solution (τ = 480 μs). Time-resolved spectroscopic studies afforded determination of pertinent photophysical parameters including rates of energy transfer and energy distribution between constituent chromophores in the equilibrated excited molecule (ca. 98% on the organic chromophores). Incorporation into a nanostructured metal–oxide matrix (AP200/19) gave highly sensitive O2 sensing films, as the detection sensitivity was 200–300% higher than with the commonly used PtTFPP and approaches the sensitivity of the best O2-sensing dyes reported to date.
U2 - 10.1039/C6AN00497K
DO - 10.1039/C6AN00497K
M3 - Article
C2 - 27094953
SN - 0003-2654
VL - 141
SP - 3090
EP - 3097
JO - The Analyst
JF - The Analyst
IS - 10
ER -