Abstract
Electronic excited state in molecular aggregate or exciton states
continue to attract great attentions due to the increasing demands for
applications of molecular optoelectronics and sensing technology. The
working principle behind the application is closely related to the
excited state structure and dynamic processes in molecular aggregate. In
our previous review article (Aggregate 2021; 2: e91), we had focused
more on the molecular mechanism for aggregation induced emission (AIE)
process. Here, we are going to summarize our recent progresses on
theoretical investigations on the effects of excitonic coupling (
J) and the intermolecular charge transfer (CT) on the excited
state structure and dynamic processes. These are in general missing for
molecular quantum chemistry studies. We will first present a novel
definition of exciton coherence length which can present a bijective
relation with the radiative decay rate and obviously we have clarified
the confusions appeared in literature. Then, we will look at the CT
effect for aggregate starting from a simple three-state model coupled
with quantum chemical calculation for molecular dimer and we focus on
the intensity borrowing which can turn H-aggregate into emissive when
the electron transfer and hole transfer integrals possessing the same
sign and being large enough. We are able to propose a molecular
descriptor to design molecular materials possibly possessing both high
PLQY and carrier mobility. Finally, we introduced our work on the
modified energy gap law for non-radiative decay rate in aggregate. We
found there exist optimal J to minimize the non-radiative decay
loss.