The fate of newly created excited states in conjugated materials is not fully understood, with unanswered questions regarding where exactly excitons form and their subsequent behaviour. Now, single-molecule spectroscopy studies of large conjugated molecular wheels reveal that excitons localize at random positions around the wheel rims.
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Scheblykin, I. Excitations get random. Nature Chem 5, 903–904 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1787
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