• 文献标题:   Nonradiative Excited-State Decay via Conical Intersection in Graphene Nanostructures
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   CHEN SW, ULLAH N, ZHAO YL, ZHANG RQ
  • 作者关键词:   conical intersection, excitedstate dynamic, graphene nanomaterial, optical propertie, tddft
  • 出版物名称:   CHEMPHYSCHEM
  • ISSN:   1439-4235 EI 1439-7641
  • 通讯作者地址:   City Univ Hong Kong
  • 被引频次:   3
  • DOI:   10.1002/cphc.201900532 EA SEP 2019
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

Chemical groups are known to tune the luminescent efficiencies of graphene-related nanomaterials, but some species, including the epoxide group (-COC-), are suspected to act as emission-quenching sites. Herein, by performing nonadiabatic excited-state dynamics simulations, we reveal a fast (within 300 fs) nonradiative excited-state decay of a graphene epoxide nanostructure from the lowest excited singlet (S-1) state to the ground (S-0) state via a conical intersection (CI), at which the energy difference between the S-1 and S-0 states is approximately zero. This CI is induced after breaking one C-O bond at the -COC- moiety during excited-state structural relaxation. This study ascertains the role of epoxide groups in inducing the nonradiative recombination of the excited electron-hole, providing important insights into the CI-promoted nonradiative de-excitations and the luminescence tuning of relevant materials. In addition, it shows the feasibility of utilizing nonadiabatic excited-state dynamics simulations to investigate the photophysical processes of the excited states of graphene nanomaterials.