Layer-by-Layer Assembled Films of Perylene Diimide- and Squaraine-Containing Metal-Organic Framework-like Materials: Solar Energy Capture and Directional Energy Transfer

Hea Jung Park; Monica C So; David Gosztola; Gary P Wiederrecht; Jonathan D Emery; Alex B F Martinson; Süleyman Er; Christopher E Wilmer; Nicolaas A Vermeulen; Alán Aspuru-Guzik; J Fraser Stoddart; Omar K Farha; Joseph T Hupp

doi:10.1021/acsami.6b03307

Layer-by-Layer Assembled Films of Perylene Diimide- and Squaraine-Containing Metal-Organic Framework-like Materials: Solar Energy Capture and Directional Energy Transfer

ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2016 Sep 28;8(38):24983-8. doi: 10.1021/acsami.6b03307. Epub 2016 Sep 16.

Authors

Hea Jung Park^{1

2}, Monica C So^{1

3}, David Gosztola, Gary P Wiederrecht, Jonathan D Emery, Alex B F Martinson, Süleyman Er^{4

5}, Christopher E Wilmer^{4

6}, Nicolaas A Vermeulen¹, Alán Aspuru-Guzik⁴, J Fraser Stoddart¹, Omar K Farha^{1

7}, Joseph T Hupp¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University , 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States.
² Chemistry Institute for Functional Materials, Pusan National University , Pusan, KR 609-735, South Korea.
³ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University, Chico , 400 W. First Street, Chico, California 95973, United States.
⁴ Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University , 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States.
⁵ Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER) , 5600 HH Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
⁶ Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh , 3700 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, United States.
⁷ Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University , Jeddah 22254, Saudi Arabia.

PMID: 27617568
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b03307

Abstract

We demonstrate that thin films of metal-organic framework (MOF)-like materials, containing two perylenediimides (PDICl4, PDIOPh2) and a squaraine dye (S1), can be fabricated by layer-by-layer assembly (LbL). Interestingly, these LbL films absorb across the visible light region (400-750 nm) and facilitate directional energy transfer. Due to the high spectral overlap and oriented transition dipole moments of the donor (PDICl4 and PDIOPh2) and acceptor (S1) components, directional long-range energy transfer from the bluest to reddest absorber was successfully demonstrated in the multicomponent MOF-like films. These findings have significant implications for the development of solar energy conversion devices based on MOFs.

Keywords: directional energy transfer; energy cascade; exciton migration; layer-by-Layer; multizone MOF-like film.