Luminescence studies in polymers—XI: Acenaphthylene polymers and copolymers with methylmethacrylate: polarization,yield and decay of the fluorescence as a function of temperature in solution

For polymers of acenaphthylene and copolymers with methylmethacrylate measurement of the polarization of the fluorescence in glassy solution at 77K has been combined with analysis of the intensity and decay of excimer and monomer fluorescence over a large temperature range. Activation energies and frequency factors corresponding to several photophysical processes have been determined and compared with those reported previously for I-vinylnaphthalene polymer and copolymers.