Exciton Migration and Amplified Quenching on Two-Dimensional Metal–Organic Layers
- 10 May 2017
- journal article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Vol. 139 (20), 7020-7029
- https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.7b02470
Abstract
The dimensionality dependency of resonance energy transfer is of great interest due to its importance in understanding energy transfer on cell membranes and in low-dimension nanostructures. Light harvesting two-dimensional metal-organic layers (2D-MOLs) and three-dimensional metal-organic frameworks (3D-MOFs) provide comparative models to study such dimensionality dependence with molecular accuracy. Here we report the construction of 2D-MOLs and 3D-MOFs from a donor ligand 4,4',4″-(benzene-1,3,5-triyl-tris(ethyne-2,1-diyl))tribenzoate (BTE) and a doped acceptor ligand 3,3',3″-nitro-4,4',4″-(benzene-1,3,5-triyl-tris(ethyne-2,1-diyl))tribenzoate (BTE-NO2). These 2D-MOLs and 3D-MOFs are connected by similar hafnium clusters, with key differences in the topology and dimensionality of the metal-ligand connection. Energy transfer from donors to acceptors through the 2D-MOL or 3D-MOF skeletons is revealed by measuring and modeling the fluorescence quenching of the donors. We found that energy transfer in 3D-MOFs is more efficient than that in 2D-MOLs, but excitons on 2D-MOLs are more accessible to external quenchers as compared with those in 3D-MOFs. These results not only provide support to theoretical analysis of energy transfer in low dimensions, but also present opportunities to use efficient exciton migration in 2D materials for light-harvesting and fluorescence sensing.Keywords
Funding Information
- Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (2016YFA0200700)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (21471126, 21671162)
- Division of Materials Research (DMR-1308229)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
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