Fission isn’t easy!

DPP J-agg spectra

 

Woojae’s first singlet fission study in the group, on DPP aggregates, has just been published in Nature Communications. Congrats! Read it here. It turns out that the popular signatures of fission in these materials – long-lived features in the visible spectrum, clear triplets in tr-EPR – aren’t what they seem. In these and many other materials, you have to wade through a great deal of artefacts and confounding signatures to find the real evidence of singlet fission.