Abstract
Many dyes suffer from fast non-radiative decaypathways, thereby showing only short-lived excited states andweak photoluminescence. Here we show a pronounced fluo-rescence enhancement for a weakly fluorescent merocyanine(MC) dye by being co-facially stacked to other dyes in hetero-folda-trimer architectures. By means of fluorescence spectros-copy (lifetime, quantum yield) the fluorescence enhancementwas explained by the rigidification of the emitting chromo-phore in the defined foldamer architecture and the presence ofa non-forbidden lowest exciton state in H-coupled hetero-aggregates. This folding-induced fluorescence enhancement(FIFE) for specific sequences ofp-stacked dyes points ata viable strategy toward improved fluorophores that relates tothe approach used by nature in the green fluorescent protein(GFP).
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