Department of Molecular Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan.
Abstract:
Fullerene-encapsulating single-walled carbon nanotubes (C(60)@SWNT) linked with porphyrins by a short bridge have been prepared for the first time. Steady state and time-resolved spectroscopies demonstrated the initial formation of an exciplex state, followed by a charge-separated state.