Direct Energy Transfer in Systems of Polymerized Acceptors

TL;DR

This paper investigates the process of direct incoherent energy transfer from a donor molecule to polymer-attached acceptors in a viscous solvent, providing explicit decay forms for various polymer conformations.

Contribution

It introduces an optimal-fluctuation method to explicitly derive decay forms for energy transfer in polymer systems with arbitrary conformations.

Findings

Explicit decay forms derived for energy transfer

Applicable to arbitrary polymer conformations

Method enhances understanding of energy transfer dynamics

Abstract

We study the direct incoherent energy transfer from an immobile excited donor molecule to acceptor molecules, which are all attached to polymer chains, randomly arranged in a viscous solvent. The decay forms are found explicitly, in terms of an optimal-fluctuation method, for arbitrary conformations of polymers.