“…Since the viscous drag of the dye surroundings determines the fluorescence lifetime of these dyes [9][10][11][12][13][17][18][19][20][21], they are applied as micro-viscosity probes and free-volume probes in micellar emulsions [9] and polymers [10][11][12][13][17][18][19][20][21]. The analysis of the solvent-dependent spectral absorption and emission shifts revealed a partial intramolecular charge transfer in the excited Si state [9,10,13,16,18,22,23].…”