Abstract
Transient decay studies of the copolymer system 1-vinyl naphthalene/methyl acrylate using pulsed laser excitation have shown that monomer and excimer decay rates are not described by dual exponential functions. Triple exponential decays are attributed to the existence of emission from two kinetically distinct monomer sites in addition to that of the excimer. Variation of intramolecular chromophore concentration in the copolymers allows adoption of a versatile series of extrapolation procedures to derive individual rate constants in the photophysical reaction scheme governing intramolecular excimer formation. Use of this procedure yields a rate parameter governing excimer formation in which the dependence upon local chromophore concentration within the polymer coil is removed to a degree not possible in studies of homopolymers alone. © 1981.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 293-298 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Polymer |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Publication status | Published - Mar 1981 |