Rotaxane rings promote oblique packing and extended lifetimes in DNA-templated molecular dye aggregates.

ABSTRACT: Molecular excitons play a central role in natural and artificial light harvesting, organic electrònics, and nanoscale computing. The structure and dynamics of molecular excitons, critical to each application, are sensitively governed by molecular packing. Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) templating is a powerful approach that enables controlled aggregation via sub-nanometer positioning of molecular dyes. However, finer sub-Angstrom control of dye packing is needed to tailor excitonic properties for specific applications. Here, we show that adding rotaxane rings to squaraine dyes templated with DNA promotes an elusive oblique packing arrangement with highly desirable optical properties. Specifically, dimers of these squaraine:rotaxanes exhibit an absorption spectrum with near-equal intensity exc

SUBMITTER: Barclay MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9037907 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature