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Yoshina R, Hirano J, Nishimoto E, Sakamoto Y, Tajima K, Minabe S, Uyanik M, Ishihara K, Ikai T, Yashima E, Omine T, Ishiwari F, Saeki A, Kim J, Oh J, Kim D, Liu G, Yasuda T, Shinokubo H, Fukui N. Inner-Bond-Cleavage Approach to Figure-Eight Macrocycles from Planar Aromatic Hydrocarbons. J Am Chem Soc 2024. [PMID: 39315432 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c07985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/25/2024]
Abstract
Figure-eight-shaped nonplanar π-systems adopt distinctive chiral D2-symmetric structures, which are ideal for realizing efficient circularly polarized luminescence (CPL). However, the short-step and enantioselective synthesis of figure-eight π-systems represents a considerable challenge for the conventional bottom-up synthetic strategy. Herein, we report that the oxidative cleavage of the internal double bond of a commercially available polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, i.e., dibenzo[g,p]chrysene (DBC), catalytically affords a figure-eight electron-accepting macrocycle, i.e., cyclobisbiphenylenecarbonyl (CBBC), with high scalability (up to 3.3 g) and excellent enantioselectivity (94% ee). This inner-bond-cleavage approach also applies to larger PAHs, affording highly distorted molecular frameworks that comprise two figure-eight subunits. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the peripheral functionalization of CBBC with carbazole afforded donor-acceptor-type emitter, which shows thermally activated delayed fluorescence and emits CPL with a g value of 1.0 × 10-2. This g value is ten times higher than those of previously reported chiral TADF-active emitters for circularly polarized organic light-emitting diodes. These results demonstrate that oxidative inner-bond cleavage is a powerful synthetic strategy for creating innovative materials that incorporate molecules with figure-eight structures.
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- Reiji Yoshina
- Department of Molecular and Macromolecular Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, and Integrated Research Consortium on Chemical Science (IRCCS), Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8603, Japan
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- Department of Molecular and Macromolecular Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, and Integrated Research Consortium on Chemical Science (IRCCS), Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8603, Japan
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- Department of Molecular and Macromolecular Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, and Integrated Research Consortium on Chemical Science (IRCCS), Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8603, Japan
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- Department of Molecular and Macromolecular Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, and Integrated Research Consortium on Chemical Science (IRCCS), Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8603, Japan
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- Department of Molecular and Macromolecular Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, and Integrated Research Consortium on Chemical Science (IRCCS), Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8603, Japan
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- Department of Molecular and Macromolecular Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, and Integrated Research Consortium on Chemical Science (IRCCS), Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8603, Japan
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- Department of Molecular and Macromolecular Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, and Integrated Research Consortium on Chemical Science (IRCCS), Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8603, Japan
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- Department of Molecular and Macromolecular Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, and Integrated Research Consortium on Chemical Science (IRCCS), Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8603, Japan
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- Department of Molecular and Macromolecular Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, and Integrated Research Consortium on Chemical Science (IRCCS), Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8603, Japan
- PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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- Department of Molecular and Macromolecular Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, and Integrated Research Consortium on Chemical Science (IRCCS), Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8603, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
- Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Spectroscopy Laboratory for Functional π-Electronic Systems and Department of Chemistry, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Soonchunhyang University, Asan, Chungnam 31538, Republic of Korea
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- Spectroscopy Laboratory for Functional π-Electronic Systems and Department of Chemistry, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Korea
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- Institute for Advanced Study, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
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- Institute for Advanced Study, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
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- Department of Molecular and Macromolecular Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, and Integrated Research Consortium on Chemical Science (IRCCS), Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8603, Japan
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- Department of Molecular and Macromolecular Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, and Integrated Research Consortium on Chemical Science (IRCCS), Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8603, Japan
- PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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Mohammadian-Sabet F, Shayesteh A. Multireference Ab Initio Calculations on Excited Electronic States of Carbazole-Based Organic Compounds for Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence. J Phys Chem A 2024; 128:4937-4949. [PMID: 38864150 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.4c00427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2024]
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The emerging technology of organic light-emitting diodes takes advantage of the thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) mechanism for improved efficiency. Carbazole-based organic molecules are suitable for TADF emission because of charge transfer excitations between the electron-donor carbazole and an electron-acceptor unit. Computational design of new TADF molecules with the desired properties is challenging because charge-transfer excitations cannot be predicted accurately by time-dependent density functional theory. Four groups of carbazole-based donor-acceptor molecules have been studied using multireference ab initio methods to understand the nature of excited electronic states. The state-averaged complete active space self-consistent field (SA-CASSCF) and the N-electron valence state perturbation theory (NEVPT2) were used to calculate energies and oscillator strengths for multiple excited electronic states. The number of active electrons and orbitals and the number of excited states included in state-averaged CASSCF were selected such that the accuracy of ab initio predictions could be improved systematically. The procedure introduced here for the calculation of multiple excited electronic states of TADF candidates can be used to accelerate the computational search for efficient TADF materials.
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- School of Chemistry, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran 14176, Iran
- Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Oswego, Oswego, New York 13126, United States
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Ma Y, Wang Q, Deng J, Yan X, Liu J, Ding L, Miao R, Fang Y. Ultrabright Acrylic Polymers with Tunable Fluorescence Enabled by Imprisoning Single TICT Probe. Macromol Rapid Commun 2024; 45:e2300592. [PMID: 37956231 DOI: 10.1002/marc.202300592] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2023] [Revised: 11/08/2023] [Indexed: 11/15/2023]
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Bright and colorful fluorescent polymers are ideal materials for a variety of applications. Although polymers could be made fluorescent by physical doping or chemical binding of fluorescent units, it is a great challenge to get colorful and highly emissive polymers with a single fluorophore. Here the development of a general and facile method to synthesize ultrabright and colorful polymers using a single twisted intramolecular charge transfer (TICT) probe is reported. By incorporating polymerizable, highly fluorescent, and environmental sensitive TICT probe, a series of colorful acrylic polymers (emission from 481 to 543 nm) with almost 100% fluorescence quantum yields are prepared. Like the solvatochromic effect, functional groups within side chains of acrylic polymers (including alkyl chain, tetrahydrofurfuryl group, and hydroxyl group) provide varied environmental polarity for the incorporated fluorophore, resulting in a series of colorful polymeric materials. Benefiting from the excellent photophysical properties, the polymers show great potential in encryption, cultural relics protection, white light-emitting diode bulb making, and fingerprint identification.
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- Yalei Ma
- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710062, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710062, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710062, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710062, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710062, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710062, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710062, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710062, P. R. China
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Xue N, Zhou HY, Han Y, Li M, Lu HY, Chen CF. A general supramolecular strategy for fabricating full-color-tunable thermally activated delayed fluorescence materials. Nat Commun 2024; 15:1425. [PMID: 38365888 PMCID: PMC10873404 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45717-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2023] [Accepted: 02/02/2024] [Indexed: 02/18/2024] Open
Abstract
Developing a facile and feasible strategy to fabricate thermally activated delayed fluorescence materials exhibiting full-color tunability remains an appealing yet challenging task. In this work, a general supramolecular strategy for fabricating thermally activated delayed fluorescence materials is proposed. Consequently, a series of host-guest cocrystals are prepared by electron-donating calix[3]acridan and various electron-withdrawing guests. Owing to the through-space charge transfer mediated by multiple noncovalent interactions, these cocrystals all display efficient thermally activated delayed fluorescence. Especially, by delicately modulating the electron-withdrawing ability of the guest molecules, the emission colors of these cocrystals can be continuously tuned from blue (440 nm) to red (610 nm). Meanwhile, high photoluminescence quantum yields of up to 87% is achieved. This research not only provides an alternative and general strategy for the fabrication of thermally activated delayed fluorescence materials, but also establishes a reliable supramolecular protocol toward the design of advanced luminescent materials.
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- Nan Xue
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Recognition and Function, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Recognition and Function, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
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- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Recognition and Function, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
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- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.
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- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Recognition and Function, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
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Blazevicius D, Grigalevicius S. A Review of Benzophenone-Based Derivatives for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes. NANOMATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 14:356. [PMID: 38392729 PMCID: PMC10892487 DOI: 10.3390/nano14040356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2024] [Revised: 02/06/2024] [Accepted: 02/09/2024] [Indexed: 02/24/2024]
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Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have garnered considerable attention in academic and industrial circles due to their potential applications in flat-panel displays and solid-state lighting technologies, leveraging the advantages offered by organic electroactive derivatives over their inorganic counterparts. The thin and flexible design of OLEDs enables the development of innovative lighting solutions, facilitating the creation of customizable and contoured lighting panels. Among the diverse electroactive components employed in the molecular design of OLED materials, the benzophenone core has attracted much attention as a fragment for the synthesis of organic semiconductors. On the other hand, benzophenone also functions as a classical phosphor with high intersystem crossing efficiency. This characteristic makes it a compelling candidate for effective reverse intersystem crossing, with potential in leading to the development of thermally activated delayed fluorescent (TADF) emitters. These emitting materials witnessed a pronounced interest in recent years due to their incorporation in metal-free electroactive frameworks and the capability to convert triplet excitons into emissive singlet excitons through reverse intersystem crossing (RISC), consequently achieving exceptionally high external quantum efficiencies (EQEs). This review article comprehensively overviews the synthetic pathways, thermal characteristics, electrochemical behaviour, and photophysical properties of derivatives based on benzophenone. Furthermore, we explore their applications in OLED devices, both as host materials and emitters, shedding light on the promising opportunities that benzophenone-based compounds present in advancing OLED technology.
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- Dovydas Blazevicius
- Department of Polymer Chemistry and Technology, Kaunas University of Technology, Radvilenu Plentas 19, LT50254 Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Department of Polymer Chemistry and Technology, Kaunas University of Technology, Radvilenu Plentas 19, LT50254 Kaunas, Lithuania
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Kim H, Lee K, Kim JH, Kim WY. Deep Learning-Based Chemical Similarity for Accelerated Organic Light-Emitting Diode Materials Discovery. J Chem Inf Model 2024; 64:677-689. [PMID: 38270063 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.3c01747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2024]
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Thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) material has attracted great attention as a promising metal-free organic light-emitting diode material with a high theoretical efficiency. To accelerate the discovery of novel TADF materials, computer-aided material design strategies have been developed. However, they have clear limitations due to the accessibility of only a few computationally tractable properties. Here, we propose TADF-likeness, a quantitative score to evaluate the TADF potential of molecules based on a data-driven concept of chemical similarity to existing TADF molecules. We used a deep autoencoder to characterize the common features of existing TADF molecules with common chemical descriptors. The score was highly correlated with the four essential electronic properties of TADF molecules and had a high success rate in large-scale virtual screening of millions of molecules to identify promising candidates at almost no cost, validating its feasibility for accelerating TADF discovery. The concept of TADF-likeness can be extended to other fields of materials discovery.
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- Hyeonsu Kim
- Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
- AI Institute, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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Chen J, Liu Z, Chen L, Zou P, Tang BZ, Zhao Z. Exploring Robust Delayed Fluorescence Materials via Structural Rigidification for Realizing Organic Light-Emitting Diodes with High Efficiencies and Small Roll-Offs. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2024; 20:e2306800. [PMID: 37823676 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202306800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2023] [Revised: 09/22/2023] [Indexed: 10/13/2023]
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Thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials have been widely studied for the fabrication of high-performance organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), but the serious efficiency roll-offs still remain unsolved in most cases. Herein, it is wish to report a series of robust green TADF compounds containing rigid xanthenone acceptor and acridine-based spiro donors. The enhancement in molecular rigidity not only endows the compounds with improved thermal stability but also results in reduced geometric vibrations and thus lowered reorganization energies. These compounds exhibit distinct merits of high thermal stabilities, excellent photoluminescence quantum efficiencies (96%-97%), large horizontal dipole orientation ratios (87.4%-92.1%) and fast TADF rates (1.4-1.5 × 106 s-1 ). The OLEDs using them as emitters furnish superb electroluminescence performances with outstanding external quantum efficiencies (ηext s) of up to 37.4% and very small efficiency roll-offs. Moreover, highly efficient hyperfluorescence OLEDs are obtained by using them as sensitizers for the green mutilresonance TADF emitter BN2, delivering excellent ηext s of up to 34.2% and improved color purity. These results disclose the high potential of these TADF compounds as emitters and sensitizers for OLEDs.
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- Jinke Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- School of Science and Engineering, Shenzhen Institute of Aggregate Science and Technology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518172, Guangdong
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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Blazevicius D, Siddiqui I, Gautam P, Krucaite G, Tavgeniene D, Nagar MR, Kumar K, Banik S, Jou JH, Grigalevicius S. Bicarbazole-Benzophenone-Based Twisted Donor-Acceptor-Donor Derivatives as Blue Emitters for Highly Efficient Fluorescent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes. NANOMATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 14:146. [PMID: 38251111 PMCID: PMC10819850 DOI: 10.3390/nano14020146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2023] [Revised: 01/04/2024] [Accepted: 01/05/2024] [Indexed: 01/23/2024]
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This paper delves into the development of a group of twisted donor-acceptor-donor (D-A-D) derivatives incorporating bicarbazole as electron donor and benzophenone as electron acceptor for potential use as blue emitters in OLEDs. The derivatives were synthesized in a reaction of 4,4'-difluorobenzophenone with various 9-alkyl-9'H-3,3'-bicarbazoles. The materials, namely, DB14, DB23, and DB29, were designed with different alkyl side chains to enhance their solubility and film-forming properties of layers formed using the spin-coating from solution method. The new materials demonstrate high thermal stabilities with decomposition temperatures >383 °C, glass transition temperatures in the range of 95-145 °C, high blue photoluminescence quantum yields (>52%), and short decay times, which range in nanoseconds. Due to their characteristics, the derivatives were used as blue emitters in OLED devices. Some of the OLEDs incorporating the DB23 emitter demonstrated a high external quantum efficiency (EQEmax) of 5.3%, which is very similar to the theoretical limit of the first-generation devices.
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- Dovydas Blazevicius
- Department of Polymer Chemistry and Technology, Kaunas University of Technology, Radvilenu Plentas 19, LT50254 Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, No. 101, Section 2, Guangfu Rd., East District, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, No. 101, Section 2, Guangfu Rd., East District, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan
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- Department of Polymer Chemistry and Technology, Kaunas University of Technology, Radvilenu Plentas 19, LT50254 Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Department of Polymer Chemistry and Technology, Kaunas University of Technology, Radvilenu Plentas 19, LT50254 Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, No. 101, Section 2, Guangfu Rd., East District, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology—Mandi, Kamand 175005, Himachal Pradesh, India
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Chemical and Biotechnology, SASTRA Deemed University, Thanjavur 613401, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, No. 101, Section 2, Guangfu Rd., East District, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan
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- Department of Polymer Chemistry and Technology, Kaunas University of Technology, Radvilenu Plentas 19, LT50254 Kaunas, Lithuania
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Whitaker W, Sazanovich IV, Kwon Y, Jeon W, Kwon MS, Orr-Ewing AJ. Characterization of the Reversible Intersystem Crossing Dynamics of Organic Photocatalysts Using Transient Absorption Spectroscopy and Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem A 2023; 127:10775-10788. [PMID: 38096377 PMCID: PMC10758116 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c04780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2023] [Revised: 12/01/2023] [Accepted: 12/01/2023] [Indexed: 12/29/2023]
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Thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters are molecules of interest as homogeneous organic photocatalysts (OPCs) for photoredox chemistry. Here, three classes of OPC candidates are studied in dichloromethane (DCM) or N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF) solutions, using transient absorption spectroscopy and time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy. These OPCs are benzophenones with either carbazole (2Cz-BP and 2tCz-BP) or phenoxazine/phenothiazine (2PXZ-BP and 2PTZ-BP) appended groups and the dicyanobenzene derivative 4DP-IPN. Dual lifetimes of the S1 state populations are observed, consistent with reverse intersystem crossing (RISC) and TADF emission. Example fluorescence lifetimes in DCM are (5.18 ± 0.01) ns and (6.22 ± 1.27) μs for 2Cz-BP, (1.38 ± 0.01) ns and (0.32 ± 0.01) μs for 2PXZ-BP, and (2.97 ± 0.01) ns and (62.0 ± 5.8) μs for 4DP-IPN. From ground state bleach recoveries and time-correlated single photon counting measurements, triplet quantum yields in DCM are estimated to be 0.62 ± 0.16, 0.04 ± 0.01, and 0.83 ± 0.02 for 2Cz-BP, 2PXZ-BP, and 4DP-IPN, respectively. 4DP-IPN displays similar photophysical behavior to the previously studied OPC 4Cz-IPN. Independent of the choice of solvent, 4DP-IPN, 2Cz-BP, and 2tCz-BP are shown to be TADF emitters, whereas emission by 2PXZ-BP and 2PTZ-BP depends on the molecular environment, with TADF emission enhanced in aggregates compared to monomers. Behavior of this type is representative of aggregation-induced emission luminogens (AIEgens).
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- William Whitaker
- School
of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock’s Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, U.K.
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- Central
Laser Facility, Research Complex at Harwell, Science and Technology
Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, U.K.
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- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul
National University, Seoul 08826, Republic
of Korea
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- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul
National University, Seoul 08826, Republic
of Korea
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- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul
National University, Seoul 08826, Republic
of Korea
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- School
of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock’s Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, U.K.
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Nair AG, Das A, Chathoth NE, Pratim Sarmah M, Anjukandi P. Chemical Tailoring Assisted non-TADF to TADF Switching in Carbazole-Benzophenone Emitter - An In-silico Investigation. Chemphyschem 2023; 24:e202300445. [PMID: 37608522 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202300445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2023] [Revised: 08/22/2023] [Accepted: 08/22/2023] [Indexed: 08/24/2023]
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Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have become one of the most popular lighting technologies since they offer several advantages over conventional devices. In carbazole-benzophenone (CzBP) OLED devices, the polymeric form of the compound is previously reported to be Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence (TADF)-active (ΔEST ≈0.12 eV), while the monomer (CzBP) (ΔEST ≈0.39 eV) does not. The present study examines the effect of chemical tailoring on the optical and photophysical properties of CzBP using DFT and TDDFT methods. The introduction of a single -NO2 group or di-substitution (-NO2 , -COOH or -CN) in the selected LUMO region of the reference CzBP monomer significantly reduces ΔEST ≈0.01 eV, projecting these systems as potential TADF-active emitters. Furthermore, the chemical modification of CzBP-LUMO alters the two-step TADF mechanism (T1 →T2 →S1 ) in CzBP (ES₁ >ET2 >ET₁ ) to the Direct Singlet Harvesting (T1 →S1 ) mechanism (ET2 >ES₁ >ET₁ ), which has recently been identified in the fourth-generation OLED materials.
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- Aparna G Nair
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Palakkad, Kerala, 678557, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Pondicherry University, Kalapet, 605014, Puducherry, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Palakkad, Kerala, 678557, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Palakkad, Kerala, 678557, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Palakkad, Kerala, 678557, India
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Yang H, Peng SK, Zheng J, Luo D, Xie M, Huang YL, Cai X, Wang J, Zhou XP, Li D. Achiral Au(I) Cyclic Trinuclear Complexes with High-Efficiency Circularly Polarized Near-Infrared TADF. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2023; 62:e202310495. [PMID: 37638844 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202310495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2023] [Revised: 08/27/2023] [Accepted: 08/28/2023] [Indexed: 08/29/2023]
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Realizing high photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) in the near-infrared (NIR) region is challenging and valuable for luminescent material, especially for thermally activated delay fluorescence (TADF) material. In this work, we report two achiral cyclic trinuclear Au(I) complexes, Au3 (4-Clpyrazolate)3 and Au3 (4-Brpyrazolate)3 (denoted as Cl-Au and Br-Au), obtained through the reaction of 4-chloro-1H-pyrazole and 4-bromo-1H-pyrazole with Au(I) salts, respectively. Both Cl-Au and Br-Au exhibit TADF with high PLQY (>70 %) in the NIR I (700-900 nm) (λmax = 720 nm) region, exceeding other NIR-TADF emitters in the solid state. Photophysical experiments and theoretical calculations confirmed the efficient NIR-TADF properties of Cl-Au and Br-Au were attributed to the small energy gap ΔE(S1-T2) (S = singlet, T = triplet) and the large spin-orbital coupling induced by ligand-to-metal-metal charge transfer of molecular aggregations. In addition, both complexes crystallize in the achiral Pna21 space group (mm2 point group) and are circularly polarized light (CPL) active with maxima luminescent dissymmetry factor |glum | of 3.4 × 10-3 (Cl-Au) and 2.7 × 10-3 (Br-Au) for their crystalline powder samples, respectively. By using Cl-Au as the emitting ink, 3D-printed luminescent logos are fabricated, which own anti-counterfeiting functions due to its CPL behavior dependent on the crystallinity.
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- Hu Yang
- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Supramolecular Coordination Materials and Applications, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510632, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Supramolecular Coordination Materials and Applications, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510632, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Supramolecular Coordination Materials and Applications, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510632, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Supramolecular Coordination Materials and Applications, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510632, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Supramolecular Coordination Materials and Applications, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510632, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, Shantou University Medical College, Guangdong, 515041, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Supramolecular Coordination Materials and Applications, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510632, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Supramolecular Coordination Materials and Applications, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510632, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Supramolecular Coordination Materials and Applications, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510632, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Supramolecular Coordination Materials and Applications, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510632, P. R. China
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Chen MY, Huang F, Wu H, Cheng YC, Wang H, Hu YN, Fan XC, Yu J, Wang K, Zhang XH. Integrating the atomically separated frontier molecular orbital distribution of two multiple resonance frameworks through a single bond for high-efficiency narrowband emission. MATERIALS HORIZONS 2023; 10:4224-4231. [PMID: 37538049 DOI: 10.1039/d3mh00881a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/05/2023]
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Atomically separated frontier molecular orbital (FMO) distribution plays a crucial role in achieving narrowband emissions for multiple resonance (MR)-type thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters. Directly peripherally decorating a MR framework with donor or acceptor groups is a common strategy for developing MR emitters. However, this approach always induces bonding features and thus spectral broadening as a side effect. How direct donor/acceptor decoration enhances atomic FMO separation while avoiding bonding features has not been explored. For this aim, two MR derivatives are synthesized by integrating two MR frameworks at different sites. Following resonance alignment, DOBNA-m-CzBN avoids breaking nonbonding FMO features at the single connecting bond and shows enhanced MR characteristics, with a sharp emission at 491 nm and a full width at half maximum (FWHM) of 24 nm/118 meV. Conversely, DOBNA-p-CzBN emerges as a bonding feature due to its continuous π-conjugation extension, with a broadened FWHM of 26 nm/132 meV peaking at 497 nm. Impressively, both emitters exhibit outstanding external quantum efficiencies of 37.8-38.6% in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), demonstrating improved performance with rigid acceptor decoration. Distinctly, the electroluminescence of DOBNA-m-CzBN shows a narrower FWHM than that of DOBNA-p-CzBN. This work for the first time reports the enhancement of atomic FMO separation for MR emitters via peripheral decoration through a single bond and provides a more comprehensive illustration for further development of MR emitters.
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- Meng-Yuan Chen
- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, P. R. China.
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, P. R. China.
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, P. R. China.
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, P. R. China.
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, P. R. China.
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, P. R. China.
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, P. R. China.
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, P. R. China.
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Negative Carbon Technologies, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, P. R. China
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, P. R. China.
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, P. R. China
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, P. R. China.
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Negative Carbon Technologies, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, P. R. China
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Bhuyan R, Mony J, Kotov O, Castellanos GW, Gómez Rivas J, Shegai TO, Börjesson K. The Rise and Current Status of Polaritonic Photochemistry and Photophysics. Chem Rev 2023; 123:10877-10919. [PMID: 37683254 PMCID: PMC10540218 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.2c00895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2022] [Indexed: 09/10/2023]
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The interaction between molecular electronic transitions and electromagnetic fields can be enlarged to the point where distinct hybrid light-matter states, polaritons, emerge. The photonic contribution to these states results in increased complexity as well as an opening to modify the photophysics and photochemistry beyond what normally can be seen in organic molecules. It is today evident that polaritons offer opportunities for molecular photochemistry and photophysics, which has caused an ever-rising interest in the field. Focusing on the experimental landmarks, this review takes its reader from the advent of the field of polaritonic chemistry, over the split into polariton chemistry and photochemistry, to present day status within polaritonic photochemistry and photophysics. To introduce the field, the review starts with a general description of light-matter interactions, how to enhance these, and what characterizes the coupling strength. Then the photochemistry and photophysics of strongly coupled systems using Fabry-Perot and plasmonic cavities are described. This is followed by a description of room-temperature Bose-Einstein condensation/polariton lasing in polaritonic systems. The review ends with a discussion on the benefits, limitations, and future developments of strong exciton-photon coupling using organic molecules.
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- Rahul Bhuyan
- Department
of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University
of Gothenburg, 412 96 Göteborg, Sweden
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- Department
of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University
of Gothenburg, 412 96 Göteborg, Sweden
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- Department
of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96 Göteborg, Sweden
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- Department
of Applied Physics and Science Education, Eindhoven Hendrik Casimir
Institute and Institute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5612 AE Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Department
of Applied Physics and Science Education, Eindhoven Hendrik Casimir
Institute and Institute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5612 AE Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Department
of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96 Göteborg, Sweden
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- Department
of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University
of Gothenburg, 412 96 Göteborg, Sweden
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Liu Q, Deng Y, Ren B, Lan X, Zhang Y, Guo R, Li C, Xiong G, Sun Y, Zhao Z. Unraveling the Position Effect of Spiroxanthene-Based n-Type Hosts for High-Performance TADF-OLEDs. NANOMATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 13:2517. [PMID: 37764546 PMCID: PMC10537283 DOI: 10.3390/nano13182517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2023] [Revised: 09/04/2023] [Accepted: 09/06/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023]
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For developing high-performance organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) with thermally activated delayed fluorescent (TADF) emitters, the diphenyltriazine (TRZ) unit was introduced onto the 2'- and 3'-positions of xanthene moiety of spiro[fluorene-9,9'-xanthene] (SFX) to construct n-type host molecules, namely 2'-TRZSFX and 3'-TRZSFX. The outward extension of the TRZ unit, induced by the meta-linkage, resulted in a higher planarity between the TRZ unit and xanthene moiety in the corresponding 3'-TRZSFX. Additionally, this extension led to a perched T1 level, as well as a lower unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) level when compared with 2'-TRZSFX. Meanwhile, the 3'-TRZSFX molecules in the crystalline state presented coherent packing along with the interaction between TRZ units; the similar packing motif was spaced apart from xanthene moieties in the 2'-TRZSFX crystal. These endowed 3'-TRZSFX superior electron transport capacity in single-carrier devices relative to the 2'-TRZSFX-based device. Hence, the 3'-TRZSFX-based TADF-OLED showed remarkable electroluminescent (EL) performance under the operating luminance from turn-on to ca. 1000 cd·m-2 with a maximum external quantum efficiency (EQEmax) of 23.0%, thanks to its matched LUMO level with 4CzIPN emitter and better electron transport capacity. Interestingly, the 2'-TRZSFX-based device, with an EQEmax of 18.8%, possessed relatively low roll-off and higher efficiency when the operating luminance exceeded 1000 cd·m-2, which was attributed to the more balanced carrier transport under high operating voltage. These results were elucidated by the analysis of single-crystal structures and the measurements of single-carrier devices, combined with EL performance. The revealed position effect of the TRZ unit on xanthene moiety provides a more informed strategy to develop SFX-based hosts for highly efficient TADF-OLEDs.
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- Qinglin Liu
- College of Science, Key Laboratory of Inorganic Molecule-Based Chemistry of Liaoning Province, Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, Shenyang 110142, China; (Q.L.); (X.L.); (Y.Z.); (C.L.); (G.X.); (Y.S.)
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- Frontiers Science Center for Flexible Electronics, Xi’an Institute of Flexible Electronics and Xi’an Institute of Biomedical Materials & Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China;
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- College of Science, Key Laboratory of Inorganic Molecule-Based Chemistry of Liaoning Province, Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, Shenyang 110142, China; (Q.L.); (X.L.); (Y.Z.); (C.L.); (G.X.); (Y.S.)
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- College of Science, Key Laboratory of Inorganic Molecule-Based Chemistry of Liaoning Province, Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, Shenyang 110142, China; (Q.L.); (X.L.); (Y.Z.); (C.L.); (G.X.); (Y.S.)
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- College of Science, Key Laboratory of Inorganic Molecule-Based Chemistry of Liaoning Province, Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, Shenyang 110142, China; (Q.L.); (X.L.); (Y.Z.); (C.L.); (G.X.); (Y.S.)
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- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates of Guangdong Province, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China;
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- College of Science, Key Laboratory of Inorganic Molecule-Based Chemistry of Liaoning Province, Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, Shenyang 110142, China; (Q.L.); (X.L.); (Y.Z.); (C.L.); (G.X.); (Y.S.)
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- College of Science, Key Laboratory of Inorganic Molecule-Based Chemistry of Liaoning Province, Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, Shenyang 110142, China; (Q.L.); (X.L.); (Y.Z.); (C.L.); (G.X.); (Y.S.)
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- College of Science, Key Laboratory of Inorganic Molecule-Based Chemistry of Liaoning Province, Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, Shenyang 110142, China; (Q.L.); (X.L.); (Y.Z.); (C.L.); (G.X.); (Y.S.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates of Guangdong Province, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China;
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Wang X, Wang S, Wang J, Yin S. Reverse Designing the Wavelength-Specific Thermally Activation Delayed Fluorescent Molecules Using a Genetic Algorithm Coupled with Cheap QM Methods. J Phys Chem A 2023. [PMID: 37418642 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c01714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/09/2023]
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Genetic algorithm (GA) optimization coupled with the semiempirical intermediate neglect of differential overlap (INDO)/CIS method is presented to inversely design the red thermally activation delayed fluorescent (TADF) molecules. According to the predefined donor-acceptor (DA) library to build an ADn-type TADF candidate, we utilized the chemical notation language SMILES code to generate a TADF molecule and apply the RDKit program to produce the initial 3D molecular structure. A combined fitness function is proposed to evaluate the performance of the functional-lead TADF molecule. The fitness function includes three key parameters, i.e., the emission wavelength, the energy gap (ΔEST) between the lowest singlet (S1)- and triplet (T1)-excited states, and the oscillator strengths for electron transition from S0 and S1. A cheap QM method, i.e., INDO/CIS, on the basis of an xTB-optimized molecular geometry is applied to quickly calculate the fitness function. Finally, the GA approach is utilized to globally search for the wavelength-specific TADF molecules under our predefined DA library, and the optimum 630 nm red and 660 nm deep red TADF molecules are inversely designed according to the evolution of molecular fitness functions.
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- Xubin Wang
- School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xian 710119, China
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- School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xian 710119, China
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- School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xian 710119, China
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- School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xian 710119, China
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Xie Y, Hua L, Wang Z, Liu Y, Ying S, Liu Y, Ren Z, Yan S. Constructing an efficient deep-blue TADF emitter by host-guest interactions towards solution-processed OLEDs with narrowband emission. Sci China Chem 2023. [DOI: 10.1007/s11426-022-1447-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2023]
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Wang H, Chen JX, Fan XC, Cheng YC, Zhou L, Zhang X, Yu J, Wang K, Zhang XH. A TADF Emitter with Dual Para-Positioned Donors Enables OLEDs with Improved Efficiency and CIE Coordinates Close to the Rec. 2020 Red Standard. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2023; 15:1685-1692. [PMID: 36579770 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c18219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Developing red thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters concurrently with high efficiency and emission color close to the BT.2020 red standard is an ongoing challenge. Herein, we developed a new red TADF emitter BCN-TPA, in which two identical donors are attached at the para-positions of one fused phenyl ring in the acceptor framework. Such an arrangement mode can lead the donors with an obvious superimposed effect comparing the conventional arrangement with edge-capped donors on the acceptor. Thus, BCN-TPA yields enhanced overall donor strength with numerous superiorities, such as high oscillator strength and narrow singlet-triplet energy difference, thus giving rise to red-shifted emission with improved overall exciton utilization. In an organic light-emitting diode, BCN-TPA presents efficient deep-red electroluminescence with a maximum external quantum efficiency of 27.6% and a peak at 656 nm, corresponding to CIE coordinates of (0.686, 0.304), which are very close to the red primary in the BT.2020 standard. To the best of our knowledge, this is one of the topmost efficiencies in the field of deep-red TADF OLEDs. This work exemplifies an easy design principle for constructing high-performance deep-red TADF emitters, providing unique molecular-level insights toward improving color quality and elevating efficiency based on conventional D-A type molecular frameworks.
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- Hui Wang
- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu215123, P. R. China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Light Industry, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong510006, P. R. China
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu215123, P. R. China
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu215123, P. R. China
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu215123, P. R. China
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu215123, P. R. China
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu215123, P. R. China
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu215123, P. R. China
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Negative Carbon Technologies, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, Jiangsu, P. R. China
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu215123, P. R. China
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Negative Carbon Technologies, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, Jiangsu, P. R. China
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Ye S, Meftahi N, Lyskov I, Tian T, Whitfield R, Kumar S, Christofferson AJ, Winkler DA, Shih CJ, Russo S, Leroux JC, Bao Y. Machine learning-assisted exploration of a versatile polymer platform with charge transfer-dependent full-color emission. Chem 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2022.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Huang B, Yu W, Yang L, Li Y, Gu N. A simple molecular design towards the conversion of a MCL backbone to a multifunctional emitter exhibiting polymorphism, AIE, TADF and MCL. Heliyon 2022; 8:e11221. [PMID: 36339989 PMCID: PMC9634020 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e11221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2022] [Revised: 09/21/2022] [Accepted: 10/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Compared with the large number of single-function materials such as aggregation-induced emission (AIE), mechanochromic luminescence (MCL), or thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters, multifunctional emitting materials offer more opportunities in practical applications. In this report, we provide a simple molecular design strategy towards the conversion of a MCL building block to a multifunctional emitter. Through altering the substituent sites and increasing the number of electron donors and steric hindrance on a normal MCL backbone benzo[d,e]benzo[4,5]imidazo[2,1-a]isoquinolin-7-one, a novel multifunctional material 10,11-bis-(4-diphenylamino-phenyl)-benzo[d,e]benzo[4,5]imidazo[2,1-a]isoquinolin-7-one (10,11-2TPA-BBI) is designed and synthesized. 10,11-2TPA-BBI exhibits simultaneous polymorphism, AIE, MCL and TADF properties. It can form four different aggregate species: yellow solid (YS) and orange solid (OS), orange flake-shaped crystal (OC), and red prism-like crystal (RC). Among them, because of the small energy gaps (ΔESTs < 0.3 eV) between the singlet and triplet excited states, OS, OC and RC exhibit TADF properties, while YS show normal fluorescence characteristics with a large ΔEST of 0.33 eV. OS can be reversibly transformed into YS upon external stimuli, which can be attributed to the emission switch between local excited state and charge transfer state. Crystallographic study indicates that the bulky structure and weak intermolecular interactions account for polymorphism and AIE properties. This work will provide a simple molecular design strategy for multifunctional materials.
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- Bin Huang
- State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biomaterials and Devices, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, PR China,College of Life Sciences and Chemistry, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biofunctional Molecule, Institute of New Materials for Vehicles, Jiangsu Second Normal University, Nanjing 210013, PR China,Corresponding author.
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biomaterials and Devices, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, PR China,Nanjing Youhealing Medical Nutrition Technology Co. Ltd, Nanjing, 211505, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biomaterials and Devices, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biomaterials and Devices, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biomaterials and Devices, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, PR China,Corresponding author.
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Luo X, Song S, Ni H, Ma H, Yang D, Ma D, Zheng Y, Zuo J. Multiple‐Resonance‐Induced Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials Based on Indolo[3,2,1‐
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]carbazole with an Efficient Narrowband Pure‐Green Electroluminescence. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2022; 61:e202209984. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.202209984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Xu‐Feng Luo
- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Organic Materials School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Nanjing University Nanjing 210023 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Organic Materials School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Nanjing University Nanjing 210023 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Organic Materials School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Nanjing University Nanjing 210023 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLOFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM) Nanjing Tech University Nanjing 211816 P. R. China
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- Institute of Polymer Optoelectronic Materials and Devices State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices South China University of Technology Guangzhou 510640 P. R. China
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- Institute of Polymer Optoelectronic Materials and Devices State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices South China University of Technology Guangzhou 510640 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Organic Materials School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Nanjing University Nanjing 210023 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Organic Materials School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Nanjing University Nanjing 210023 P. R. China
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7-mesityl-7H-dinaphtho[1,8-bc:1′,2′-e]borinine: A boron-doped polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon for organic light-emitting diodes by Si–B exchange. Tetrahedron Lett 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2022.154134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Effect of host polarity on efficiency of thermally activated delayed fluorescent and hyperfluorescent organic light emitting devices. J IND ENG CHEM 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jiec.2022.09.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Luo XF, Song SQ, Ni HX, Ma H, Yang D, Ma D, Zheng YX, Zuo JL. Multiple‐Resonance‐Induced Thermally Activated Delay Fluorescence Materials Based on Indolo[3,2,1‐jk]carbazole with an Efficient Narrowband Pure‐Green Electroluminescence. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202209984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Xu-Feng Luo
- Nanjing University School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering CHINA
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- Nanjing University School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering CHINA
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- Nanjing University School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering CHINA
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- Nanjing Tech University Institute of Advanced Materials CHINA
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- South China University of Technology Institute of Polymer Optoelectronic Materials and Devices CHINA
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- South China University of Technology Institute of Polymer Optoelectronic Materials and Devices CHINA
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- Nanjing University School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University 163 Xianlin Avenue 210023 Nanjing CHINA
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- Nanjing University School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering CHINA
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Guo H, Song X, Wang X, Liu Y, Redshaw C, Feng X. An Efficient Approach to Pyrene‐based Aggregation‐induced Emission Luminogens. ChemistrySelect 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/slct.202202208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Hongxi Guo
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Information Photonics Technology School of Material and Energy Guangdong University of Technology Guangzhou 510006 P. R. China. (X.Feng
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Information Photonics Technology School of Material and Energy Guangdong University of Technology Guangzhou 510006 P. R. China. (X.Feng
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Information Photonics Technology School of Material and Energy Guangdong University of Technology Guangzhou 510006 P. R. China. (X.Feng
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Information Photonics Technology School of Material and Energy Guangdong University of Technology Guangzhou 510006 P. R. China. (X.Feng
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- Department of Chemistry University of Hull Cottingham Road Hull, Yorkshire HU6 7RX, U.K
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Information Photonics Technology School of Material and Energy Guangdong University of Technology Guangzhou 510006 P. R. China. (X.Feng
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates South China University of Technology) Guangzhou 510640 China
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Li S, Huang X, Gao Y, Jin J. Oxalamide/Amide Ligands: Enhanced and Copper-Catalyzed C-N Cross-Coupling for Triarylamine Synthesis. Org Lett 2022; 24:5817-5824. [PMID: 35899986 DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.2c02364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Triarylamines are privileged core structures that are found in versatile optoelectronic materials. New methods are constantly being sought for their preparation. Herein, a new protocol for triarylamine synthesis is presented where a wide range of diarylamines couple smoothly with aryl bromides mediated by a copper oxalamide (or amide) catalytic system. Notably, a new non-C2-symmetric 1-isoquinolinamide-based N,N-/N,O-bidentate ligand was introduced that could tolerate bulky diarylamines. Plenty of known optoelectronic functional molecules could be synthesized in good to excellent yields. The practicality of this C-N cross-coupling was illustrated by the gram-scale synthesis of a patented thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitter for organic light-emitting diodes.
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- Sasa Li
- CAS Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry of Natural Substances, Center for Excellence in Molecular Synthesis, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai 200032, China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai 200234, China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai 200234, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry of Natural Substances, Center for Excellence in Molecular Synthesis, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai 200032, China
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Ulukan P, Bas EE, Ozek RB, Dal Kaynak C, Monari A, Aviyente V, Catak S. Computational descriptor analysis on excited state behaviours of a series of TADF and non-TADF compounds. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:16167-16182. [PMID: 35748918 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp01323a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) behaviours of seventeen organic TADF emitters and two non-TADF chromophores bearing various donor and acceptor moieties were investigated, focusing on their torsion angles, singlet-triplet gap (ΔEST), spin orbit couplings (SOC) and topological ΦS index. Electronic structure calculations were performed in the framework of the Tamm-Dancoff approximation (TDA) allowing the possible reverse intersystem crossing (RISC) pathways to be characterized. The electronic density reorganization of the excited states was checked also with respect to the different exchange-correlation functional and absorption spectra were obtained by considering vibrational and dynamical effects through Wigner sampling of the ground state equilibrium regions. Examining all the parameters obtained in our computational study, we rationalized the influence of electron-donating and electron-accepting groups and the effects of geometrical factors, especially torsion angles, on a wide class of diverse compounds ultimately providing an easy and computationally effective protocol to assess TADF efficiencies.
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- Pelin Ulukan
- Department of Chemistry, Bogazici University, Bebek, 34342, Istanbul, Turkey.
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- Department of Chemistry, Bogazici University, Bebek, 34342, Istanbul, Turkey.
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- Department of Chemistry, Bogazici University, Bebek, 34342, Istanbul, Turkey.
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- Department of Chemistry, Bogazici University, Bebek, 34342, Istanbul, Turkey.
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- Université de Lorraine and CNRS, LPCT UMR 7019, F-54000 Nancy, France.,Université de Paris and CNRS, Itodys, F-75006 Paris, France
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- Department of Chemistry, Bogazici University, Bebek, 34342, Istanbul, Turkey.
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- Department of Chemistry, Bogazici University, Bebek, 34342, Istanbul, Turkey.
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Zhang X, Liu H, Zhuang G, Yang S, Du P. An unexpected dual-emissive luminogen with tunable aggregation-induced emission and enhanced chiroptical property. Nat Commun 2022; 13:3543. [PMID: 35729154 PMCID: PMC9213505 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-31281-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2022] [Accepted: 06/13/2022] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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In the literature, organic materials with both aggregation-induced emission (AIE) and aggregation-caused quenching (ACQ) effects that can emit with multiple bands both in the solution and aggregated state are rarely reported. Herein we report a novel chiral dual-emissive bismacrocycle with tunable aggregation-induced emission colors. A facile four-step synthesis strategy is developed to construct this rigid bismacrocycle, (1,4)[8]cycloparaphenylenophane (SCPP[8]), which possesses a 1,2,4,5-tetraphenylbenzene core locked by two intersecting polyphenylene-based macrocycles. The luminescent behavior of SCPP[8] shows the unique characteristics of both ACQ effect and AIE effect, inducing remarkable redshift emission with near white-light emission. SCPP[8] is configurationally stable and possesses a novel shape-persistent bismacrocycle scaffold with a high strain energy. In addition, SCPP[8] displays enhanced circularly polarized luminescence properties due to AIE effect. Organic materials with both aggregation induced emission (AIE) and aggregation-caused quenching (ACQ) effects that can emit with multiple wavelengths in the solution and aggregated state are rarely reported. Here, the authors report a chiral dual-emissive bismacrocycle which shows the unique ACQ and AIE effects inducing redshift emission with near white-light emission.
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- Xinyu Zhang
- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Anhui Laboratory of Advanced Photon Science and Technology, CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, iChEM, University of Science and Technology of China, 96 Jinzhai Road, Hefei, Anhui Province, 230026, China
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- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Anhui Laboratory of Advanced Photon Science and Technology, CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, iChEM, University of Science and Technology of China, 96 Jinzhai Road, Hefei, Anhui Province, 230026, China
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- College of Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, 18 Chaowang Road, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, 310032, China
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- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Anhui Laboratory of Advanced Photon Science and Technology, CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, iChEM, University of Science and Technology of China, 96 Jinzhai Road, Hefei, Anhui Province, 230026, China.
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- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Anhui Laboratory of Advanced Photon Science and Technology, CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, iChEM, University of Science and Technology of China, 96 Jinzhai Road, Hefei, Anhui Province, 230026, China.
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Li S, Chen Y, He P, Ma Y, Cai Y, Hou X, Zhang G, Zhang X, Wang Z. Aggregation-Induced Emission (AIE) Photosensitizer Combined Polydopamine Nanomaterials for Organelle-Targeting Photodynamic and Photothermal Therapy by the Recognition of Sialic Acid. Adv Healthc Mater 2022; 11:e2200242. [PMID: 35613621 DOI: 10.1002/adhm.202200242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2022] [Revised: 04/22/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The construction of organelle-targeting nanomaterials is an effective way to improve tumor imaging and treatment. Here, a new type of composite nanomaterial named as PTTPB is developed. PTTPB is composed of organelle-targeting aggregation-induced emission photosensitizer TTPB and polydopamine nanomaterials. With the functional modification of TTPB, PTTPB can recognize sialic acid on the cell membrane and present mitochondrial targeted capabilities. The intake of PTTPB in cancerous cells can be increased by the recognition process of cell membrane. PTTPB can generate singlet oxygen for photodynamic therapy (PDT), and present good photothermal conversion ability with irradiation. The PTTPB with organelle-targeting imaging-guided can realize the tumor ablation with the synergistic effect of PDT and photothermal therapy.
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- Shuo Li
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering College of Chemistry Beijing University of Chemical Technology Beijing 100029 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering College of Chemistry Beijing University of Chemical Technology Beijing 100029 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering College of Chemistry Beijing University of Chemical Technology Beijing 100029 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering College of Chemistry Beijing University of Chemical Technology Beijing 100029 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering College of Chemistry Beijing University of Chemical Technology Beijing 100029 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering College of Chemistry Beijing University of Chemical Technology Beijing 100029 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering College of Chemistry Beijing University of Chemical Technology Beijing 100029 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering College of Chemistry Beijing University of Chemical Technology Beijing 100029 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering College of Chemistry Beijing University of Chemical Technology Beijing 100029 P. R. China
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Li C, Liu J, Hong Y, Lin R, Liu Z, Chen M, Lam JWY, Ning GH, Zheng X, Qin A, Tang BZ. Click Synthesis Enabled Sulfur Atom Strategy for Polymerization-Enhanced and Two-Photon Photosensitization. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2022; 61:e202202005. [PMID: 35257452 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202202005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2022] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Facile tailoring of photosensitizers (PSs) with advanced and synergetic properties is highly expected to broaden and deepen photodynamic therapy (PDT) applications. Herein, a catalyst-free thiol-yne click reaction was employed to develop the sulfur atom-based PSs by using the in situ formed sulfur "heavy atom effect" to enhance the intersystem crossing (ISC), while such an effect can be remarkably magnified by the polymerization. The introduction of a tetraphenylpyrazine-based aggregation-induced emission (AIE) unit was also advantageous in PS design by suppressing their non-radiative decay to facilitate the ISC in the aggregated state. Besides, the resulting sulfur atom electron donor, together with a double-bond π bridge and AIE electron acceptor, created a donor-π-acceptor (D-π-A) molecular system with good two-photon excitation properties. Combined with the high singlet oxygen generation efficiency, the fabricated polymer nanoparticles exhibited an excellent in vitro two-photon-excited PDT towards cancer cells, therefore possessing a huge potential for the deep-tissue disease therapy.
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- Chongyang Li
- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China
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- Department of Chemistry and The Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China.,Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- Department of Chemistry and The Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China
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- Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials and CityU-CAS Joint Laboratory of Functional Materials and Devices, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- School of Science and Engineering, Shenzhen Institute of Aggregate Science and Technology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, No. 2001 Longxiang Boulevard, Longgang District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518172, China.,Department of Chemistry and The Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.,Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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Francese T, Kundu A, Gygi F, Galli G. Quantum simulations of thermally activated delayed fluorescence in an all-organic emitter. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:10101-10113. [PMID: 35416814 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp01147f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We investigate the prototypical NAI-DMAC thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitter in the gas phase- and high-packing fraction limits at finite temperature, by combining first principles molecular dynamics with a quantum thermostat to account for nuclear quantum effects (NQE). We find a weak dependence of the singlet-triplet energy gap (ΔEST) on temperature in both the solid and the molecule, and a substantial effect of packing. While the ΔEST vanishes in the perfect crystal, it is of the order of ∼0.3 eV in the molecule, with fluctuations ranging from 0.1 to 0.4 eV at 300 K. The transition probability between the HOMOs and LUMOs has a stronger dependence on temperature than the singlet-triplet gap, with a desirable effect for thermally activated fluorescence; such temperature effect is weaker in the condensed phase than in the molecule. Our results on ΔEST and oscillator strengths, together with our estimates of direct and reverse intersystem crossing rates, show that optimization of packing and geometrical conformation is critical to increase the efficiency of TADF compounds. Our findings highlight the importance of considering thermal fluctuations and NQE to obtain robust predictions of the electronic properties of NAI-DMAC.
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- Tommaso Francese
- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
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- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
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- Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. .,Materials Science Division and Center for Molecular Engineering, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA.,Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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Cheon HJ, Shin YS, Park NH, Lee JH, Kim YH. Boron-Based Multi-Resonance TADF Emitter with Suppressed Intermolecular Interaction and Isomer Formation for Efficient Pure Blue OLEDs. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2022; 18:e2107574. [PMID: 35274463 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202107574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2021] [Revised: 02/03/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Multi-resonance (MR) thermally activated delayed fluorescent (TADF) emitters are highly attractive due to their superior color purity as well as efficient light-harvesting ability from singlets and triplets. However, boron and nitrogen-based MR-TADF emitters suffer from their strong π-π interaction owing to their rigid flat cores. Herein, a boron-based multi-resonance blue TADF emitter with suppressed intermolecular interaction and isomer formation is developed through a simple synthetic process by introducing meta-xylene and meta-phenyphenyl groups to the core. The MR-TADF emitter, mBP-DABNA-Me, shows a narrowband blue emission with a peak at 467 nm, along with full width at half maximum of 28 nm, and photoluminescence quantum yield of 97%. Notably, highly efficient pure blue organic light-emitting diode (OLED) is realized using mBP-DABNA-Me, showing a maximum external quantum efficiency of 24.3% and a stable blue emission with a Commission Internationale de L'Eclairage coordinate of (0.124, 0.140). The color purity of the OLED is maintained at a high doping concentration of over 20%, attributed to the suppressed intermolecular interaction between the MR emitters.
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- Hyung Jin Cheon
- Department of Chemistry and RIGET, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, 52828, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Inha University, Incheon, 22212, Republic of Korea
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- 3D Convergence Center, Inha University, Incheon, 22212, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Inha University, Incheon, 22212, Republic of Korea
- 3D Convergence Center, Inha University, Incheon, 22212, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and RIGET, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, 52828, Republic of Korea
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Zhang J, Wei Q, Lyu L, Cao L, Zhao M, Fei N, Wang T, Ge Z. Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescent (TADF) Mono‐Polymeric OLED with Higher EQE over Its TADF Repeating Unit. MACROMOL CHEM PHYS 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/macp.202200023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Jiasen Zhang
- College of material science and engineering Zhejiang Sci‐Tech University Hangzhou 310018 PR China
- Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences Ningbo 315201 PR China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering University of Chinese Academy of Sciences PR China
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- Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences Ningbo 315201 PR China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering University of Chinese Academy of Sciences PR China
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- Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences Ningbo 315201 PR China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering University of Chinese Academy of Sciences PR China
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- Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences Ningbo 315201 PR China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering University of Chinese Academy of Sciences PR China
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- Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences Ningbo 315201 PR China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering University of Chinese Academy of Sciences PR China
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- College of material science and engineering Zhejiang Sci‐Tech University Hangzhou 310018 PR China
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- Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences Ningbo 315201 PR China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering University of Chinese Academy of Sciences PR China
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Li C, Liu J, Hong Y, Lin R, Liu Z, Chen M, Lam JWY, Ning G, Zheng X, Qin A, Tang BZ. Click Synthesis Enabled Sulfur Atom Strategy for Polymerization‐Enhanced and Two‐Photon Photosensitization. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202202005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Chongyang Li
- College of Chemistry and Materials Science Jinan University Guangzhou 510632 China
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- Department of Chemistry and The Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay Kowloon Hong Kong China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science Jinan University Guangzhou 510632 China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science Jinan University Guangzhou 510632 China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science Jinan University Guangzhou 510632 China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science Jinan University Guangzhou 510632 China
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates South China University of Technology Guangzhou 510640 China
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- Department of Chemistry and The Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay Kowloon Hong Kong China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science Jinan University Guangzhou 510632 China
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- Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials and CityU-CAS Joint Laboratory of Functional Materials and Devices Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates South China University of Technology Guangzhou 510640 China
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- School of Science and Engineering Shenzhen Institute of Aggregate Science and Technology The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen No. 2001 Longxiang Boulevard, Longgang District Shenzhen Guangdong 518172 China
- Department of Chemistry and The Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay Kowloon Hong Kong China
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates South China University of Technology Guangzhou 510640 China
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Huang B. Crystallographic and Computational Investigations of Triphenylamine/Anthraquinone Hybrids. JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL CRYSTALLOGRAPHY 2022; 52:53-61. [DOI: 10.1007/s10870-021-00890-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2021] [Accepted: 05/08/2021] [Indexed: 09/01/2023]
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Chen J, Liu H, Guo J, Wang J, Qiu N, Xiao S, Chi J, Yang D, Ma D, Zhao Z, Tang BZ. Robust Luminescent Molecules with High-Level Reverse Intersystem Crossing for Efficient Near Ultraviolet Organic Light-Emitting Diodes. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2022; 61:e202116810. [PMID: 34981618 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202116810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) radiating near ultraviolet (NUV) light are of high importance but rarely reported due to the lack of robust organic short-wavelength emitters. Here, we report a short π-conjugated molecule (POPCN-2CP) with high thermal and morphological stabilities and strong NUV photoluminescence. Its neat film exhibits an electroluminescence (EL) peak at 404 nm with a maximum external quantum efficiency (ηext,max ) of 7.5 % and small efficiency roll-off. The doped films of POPCN-2CP in both non-polar and polar hosts at a wide doping concentration range (10-80 wt%) achieve high-purity NUV light (388-404 nm) and excellent ηext,max s of up to 8.2 %. The high-level reverse intersystem crossing improves exciton utilization and accounts for the superb ηext,max s. POPCN-2CP can also serve as an efficient host for blue fluorescence, thermally activated delayed fluorescence and phosphorescence emitters, providing excellent EL performance via Förster energy transfer.
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- Jinke Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China
- Shenzhen Institute of Aggregate Science and Technology, School of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518172, China
- AIE Institute, Guangzhou Development District, Huangpu, Guangzhou, 510530, China
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Li F, Wang M, Liu S, Zhao Q. Halide-containing organic persistent luminescent materials for environmental sensing applications. Chem Sci 2022; 13:2184-2201. [PMID: 35310490 PMCID: PMC8864697 DOI: 10.1039/d1sc06586f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2021] [Accepted: 11/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Great progress has been made in the development of various organic persistent luminescent (OPL) materials in the past few years, and increasing attention has been paid to their interesting applications in environmental sensing due to their long emission lifetimes and high sensitivity. Especially, the introduction of different halogen elements facilitates highly efficient OPL emission with distinct lifetimes and colours. In this review, we summarize the current status of the halide-containing OPL materials for environmental sensing applications. To begin with, the photophysical processes and luminescence mechanisms of OPL materials are expounded in detail to better understand the relationship among molecular structures, OPL properties, and sensing applications. Then, representative halide-containing material systems, such as small molecules, polymers, and doping systems, are summarized with their interesting applications in sensing temperature, oxygen, H2O, UV light and organic solvents. In addition, several challenges and future research opportunities in this field are discussed. This review aims to provide some reasonable guidance on the material design of OPL sensors and their practical applications, and tries to provide a new perspective on the application direction of organic optoelectronics. This review presents a summary of the molecular design of halide-containing organic persistent luminescent materials, and their environmental sensing applications.![]()
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- Feiyang Li
- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biosensors, Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM) & Institute of Flexible Electronics (Future Technology), Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT) 9 Wenyuan Road Nanjing 210023 Jiangsu China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biosensors, Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM) & Institute of Flexible Electronics (Future Technology), Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT) 9 Wenyuan Road Nanjing 210023 Jiangsu China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biosensors, Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM) & Institute of Flexible Electronics (Future Technology), Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT) 9 Wenyuan Road Nanjing 210023 Jiangsu China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biosensors, Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM) & Institute of Flexible Electronics (Future Technology), Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT) 9 Wenyuan Road Nanjing 210023 Jiangsu China .,College of Electronic and Optical Engineering, College of Flexible Electronics (Future Technology), Jiangsu Province Engineering Research Center for Fabrication and Application of Special Optical Fiber Materials and Devices, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT) 9 Wenyuan Road Nanjing 210023 Jiangsu China
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Somani A, Sander W. Reaction of electrons trapped in cryogenic matrices with benzophenone. J PHYS ORG CHEM 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/poc.4335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Ankit Somani
- Lehrstuhl für Organische Chemie II Ruhr‐Universität Bochum Bochum Germany
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- Lehrstuhl für Organische Chemie II Ruhr‐Universität Bochum Bochum Germany
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Bas EE, Ulukan P, Monari A, Aviyente V, Catak S. Photophysical Properties of Benzophenone-Based TADF Emitters in Relation to Their Molecular Structure. J Phys Chem A 2022; 126:473-484. [PMID: 35061385 PMCID: PMC8895462 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c08320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials are commonly used in various apparatus, including organic light-emitting device-based displays, as they remarkably improve the internal quantum efficiencies. Although there is a wide range of donor-acceptor-based compounds possessing TADF properties, in this computational study, we investigated TADF and some non-TADF chromophores, containing benzophenone or its structural derivatives as the acceptor core, together with various donor moieties. Following the computational modeling of the emitters, several excited state properties, such as the absorption spectra, singlet-triplet energy gaps (ΔEST), natural transition orbitals, and the topological ΦS indices, have been computed. Along with the donor-acceptor torsion angles and spin-orbit coupling values, these descriptors have been utilized to investigate potential TADF efficiency. Our study has shown that on the one hand, our photophysical/structural descriptors and computational methodologies predict the experimental results quite well, and on the other hand, our extensive benchmark can be useful to pinpoint the most promising functionals and descriptors for the study of benzophenone-based TADF emitters.
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- Ekin Esme Bas
- Department of Chemistry, Bogazici University, Bebek, 34342 Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Chemistry, Bogazici University, Bebek, 34342 Istanbul, Turkey
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- Université de Lorraine and CNRS, LPCT UMR 7019, F54000 Nancy, France.,Université de Paris and CNRS, ITODYS, F75006 Paris, France
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- Department of Chemistry, Bogazici University, Bebek, 34342 Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Chemistry, Bogazici University, Bebek, 34342 Istanbul, Turkey
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Chen J, Liu H, Guo J, Wang J, Qiu N, Xiao S, Chi J, Yang D, Ma D, Zhao Z, Tang BZ. Robust Luminescent Molecules with High‐Level Reverse Intersystem Crossing for Efficient Near Ultraviolet Organic Light‐Emitting Diodes. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202116810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Jinke Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates South China University of Technology Guangzhou 510640 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates South China University of Technology Guangzhou 510640 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates South China University of Technology Guangzhou 510640 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates South China University of Technology Guangzhou 510640 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates South China University of Technology Guangzhou 510640 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates South China University of Technology Guangzhou 510640 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates South China University of Technology Guangzhou 510640 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates South China University of Technology Guangzhou 510640 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates South China University of Technology Guangzhou 510640 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates South China University of Technology Guangzhou 510640 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Luminescence from Molecular Aggregates South China University of Technology Guangzhou 510640 China
- Shenzhen Institute of Aggregate Science and Technology School of Science and Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen Guangdong 518172 China
- AIE Institute, Guangzhou Development District, Huangpu Guangzhou 510530 China
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Cao L, Yang X, Li M, Liu L, Yu J, Tan H. Synthesis and Electroluminescence Properties of Donor-Acceptor (D-A) Type Near-Infrared Iridium(III) Complex Luminescent Materials with Bipolar Transmission Features. CHINESE J ORG CHEM 2022. [DOI: 10.6023/cjoc202111017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Li J, Yang S, Deng Z, Ni S, Chen SL, Dang L, Li MD. Ultrafast Study of Substituted-Position-Dependent Excited-state Evolution in Benzophenone-Carbazole Dyads. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:14623-14630. [DOI: 10.1039/d2cp01180h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The donor and acceptor (D-A) compounds based on benzophenone (BP) and carbazole (Cz) were recently reported to exhibit an extraordinary long afterglow phosphorescence in the solid state. However, the BP...
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Duan C, Xin Y, Wang Z, Zhang J, Han C, Xu H. High-efficiency hyperfluorescent white light-emitting diodes based on high-concentration-doped TADF sensitizer matrices via spatial and energy gap effects. Chem Sci 2021; 13:159-169. [PMID: 35059164 PMCID: PMC8694281 DOI: 10.1039/d1sc05753g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2021] [Accepted: 11/24/2021] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Despite the success of monochromatic hyperfluorescent (HF) organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), high-efficiency HF white OLEDs (WOLEDs) are still a big challenge. Herein, we demonstrate HF WOLEDs with state-of-the-art efficiencies, featuring a quasi-bilayer emissive layer (EML) composed of an ultrathin (0.1 nm) blue fluorescence (FL) emitter (TBPe) layer and a layer of thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) sensitizer matrix heavily doped with a yellow FL emitter (TBRb, 3%). Based on an asymmetric high-energy-gap TADF sensitizer host (PhCzSPOTz), such an “ultrathin blue emitting layer (UTBL)” strategy endowed the HF WOLEDs with a record power efficiency of ∼80 lm W−1, approaching the level of fluorescent tubes. Transient photoluminescence (PL) and electroluminescence (EL) kinetics demonstrate that the spatial separation of TBPe from the TADF sensitizer and TBRb, and the large energy gap between the latter two effectively suppress triplet leakage, in addition to suppressing triplet diffusion in the PhCzSPOTz matrix with anisotropic intermolecular interactions. These results provide a new insight into the exciton allocation process in HF white light-emitting systems. A thermally activated delayed fluorescence host was developed to realize high-efficiency fluorescence white organic light-emitting diodes (WOLED) through spatial and energy gap effects.![]()
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- Chunbo Duan
- Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry, Ministry of Education & School of Chemistry and Material Science, Heilongjiang University 74 Xuefu Road Harbin 150080 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry, Ministry of Education & School of Chemistry and Material Science, Heilongjiang University 74 Xuefu Road Harbin 150080 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry, Ministry of Education & School of Chemistry and Material Science, Heilongjiang University 74 Xuefu Road Harbin 150080 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry, Ministry of Education & School of Chemistry and Material Science, Heilongjiang University 74 Xuefu Road Harbin 150080 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry, Ministry of Education & School of Chemistry and Material Science, Heilongjiang University 74 Xuefu Road Harbin 150080 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry, Ministry of Education & School of Chemistry and Material Science, Heilongjiang University 74 Xuefu Road Harbin 150080 P. R. China
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Wang J, Zhang J, Jiang C, Yao C, Xi X. Effective Design Strategy for Aggregation-Induced Emission and Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters Achieving 18% External Quantum Efficiency Pure-Blue OLEDs with Extremely Low Roll-Off. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2021; 13:57713-57724. [PMID: 34813274 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c17449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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High-color purity organic emitters with a simultaneous combination of aggregation-induced emission (AIE) and thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) characteristics are in great demand due to their excellent comprehensive performances toward efficient organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). In this work, two D-π-A-structure emitters, ICz-DPS and ICz-BP, exhibiting AIE and TADF properties were developed, and both the emitters have narrow singlet (S1)-triplet (T1) splitting (ΔEST) and excellent photoluminescence (PL) quantum yields (ΦPL), derived from the distorted configurations and weak intra/intermolecular interactions, suppressing exciton annihilation and concentration quenching. Their doped OLEDs based on ICz-BP provide an excellent electroluminescence external quantum efficiency (ηext) and current efficiency (ηC) of 17.7% and 44.8 cd A-1, respectively, with an ηext roll-off of 2.9%. Their nondoped OLEDs based on ICz-DPS afford high efficiencies of 11.7% and 30.1 cd A-1, with pure-blue emission with Commission Internationale de l'Éclairage (CIE) coordinates of (0.15, 0.08) and a low roll-off of 6.0%. This work also shows a strategy for designing AIE-TADF molecules by rational use of steric hindrance and weak inter/intramolecular interactions to realize high ΦPL values, fast reverse intersystem crossing process, and reduced nonradiative transition process properties, which may open the way toward highly efficient and small-efficiency roll-off devices.
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- Jinshan Wang
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Yancheng Institute of Technology, Yancheng 224051, China
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- School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Yancheng Institute of Technology, Yancheng 224051, China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Extraordinary Bond Engineering and Advance Materials Technology (EBEAM), Yangtze Normal University, Chongqing 408100, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Yancheng Institute of Technology, Yancheng 224051, China
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Biswas S, Manna G, Das B, Bhattacharya A, Pal AK, Datta A, Alam P, Laskar IR, Mondal P, Mukhopadhyay MK, Sanyal MK, Acharya S. Origin of Intense Luminescence from Supramolecular 2D Molecular Crystals. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2021; 17:e2103212. [PMID: 34622549 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202103212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2021] [Revised: 07/28/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Luminescence enhancement in 2D molecular crystals (2D crystals) is promising for a variety of optical applications, yet the availability is limited because of unclear mechanism and inefficient design strategy of luminescence control. Herein, the room temperature phosphorescence from micron long molecular thin free-standing 2D crystals of a mono-cyclometalated Ir(III) complex designed at the water surface is reported. A large luminescence enhancement is observed from the 2D crystals at 300 K, which is comparable with the rigidified solution at 77 K suggesting room temperature phosphorescence origin of the luminescence. In situ synchrotron grazing incidence X-ray diffraction measurements determine the constituent centered rectangular unit cells with precise molecular conformation that promotes the formation of 2D crystals. The molecular crystal design leads to a reduced singlet-triplet energy gap (ΔEST ) and mixing of singlet-triplet states by spin-orbit coupling (SOC) for efficient intersystem crossing, which explains the phosphorescence origin at room temperature and luminescence enhancement. The supramolecular assembly process provides an elegant design strategy to realize room temperature phosphorescence from 2D crystals by rigid intermolecular interactions.
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- Sandip Biswas
- School of Applied & Interdisciplinary Sciences (SAIS), Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata, 700032, India
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- Surface Physics and Materials Science Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata, 700064, India
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- School of Applied & Interdisciplinary Sciences (SAIS), Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata, 700032, India
- Technical Research Center (TRC), Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata, 700032, India
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- Surface Physics and Materials Science Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata, 700064, India
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata, 700032, India
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata, 700032, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, Rajasthan, 333031, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, Rajasthan, 333031, India
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- School of Applied & Interdisciplinary Sciences (SAIS), Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata, 700032, India
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- Surface Physics and Materials Science Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata, 700064, India
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- Surface Physics and Materials Science Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata, 700064, India
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- School of Applied & Interdisciplinary Sciences (SAIS), Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata, 700032, India
- Technical Research Center (TRC), Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata, 700032, India
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Wei Z, Lin S, Zuo T, Li Q, Jiang S, Qi F, Yang M, Gu J, Meng L, Lu CZ. Thermally activated delayed fluorescence materials with aggregation-induced emission properties: a QM/MM study. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:25789-25796. [PMID: 34766607 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp04190h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Organic molecules with thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) and aggregation induced emission (AIE) properties have attracted increasing research interest due to their great potential applications in organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), especially for those with multicolor mechanochromic luminescence (MCL) features. Theoretical research on the luminescence characteristics of organic TADF emitters based on the aggregation states is highly desired to quantify the relationship between the TADF properties and aggregation states. In this work, we study the 4,4'-(6-(9,9-dimethylacridine-10(9H)-yl)quinoline-2,3-dibenzonitrile (DMAC-CNQ) emitter with TADF and AIE properties, and calculate the photophysical properties in gas, solid and amorphous states by using the quantum mechanics and molecular mechanics (QM/MM) method. Our simulations demonstrate that the aggregation states enhance obviously the reverse intersystem crossing rates and transition dipole moments of the DMAC-CNQ emitter, and suppress the non-radiative rates from the lowest excited singlet state (S1) to ground state (S0). Specifically, the molecular stacking of DMAC-CNQ in solid phases can mainly restrict the geometric torsion of the DMAC moiety for decreasing non-radiative decay rates, and the torsion of the CNQ moiety for increasing the reverse intersystem crossing rates. As a result, the calculated fluorescence efficiencies of the DMAC-CNQ emitter in the crystal and amorphous states are 67% and 26% respectively, and in good agreement with the experimental results.
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- Zhuangzhuang Wei
- CAS Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures, and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, P. R. China. .,College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350007, P. R. China.,Xiamen Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Photoelectric Functional Materials, Xiamen Institute of Rare Earth Materials, Haixi Institutes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, P. R. China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Organic OptoElectronics and Molecular Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures, and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, P. R. China. .,Xiamen Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Photoelectric Functional Materials, Xiamen Institute of Rare Earth Materials, Haixi Institutes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, P. R. China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Organic OptoElectronics and Molecular Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures, and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, P. R. China. .,Xiamen Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Photoelectric Functional Materials, Xiamen Institute of Rare Earth Materials, Haixi Institutes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, P. R. China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures, and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, P. R. China. .,College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350007, P. R. China.,Xiamen Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Photoelectric Functional Materials, Xiamen Institute of Rare Earth Materials, Haixi Institutes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, P. R. China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures, and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, P. R. China. .,Xiamen Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Photoelectric Functional Materials, Xiamen Institute of Rare Earth Materials, Haixi Institutes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures, and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, P. R. China. .,College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350007, P. R. China.,Xiamen Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Photoelectric Functional Materials, Xiamen Institute of Rare Earth Materials, Haixi Institutes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, P. R. China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures, and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, P. R. China. .,College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350007, P. R. China.,Xiamen Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Photoelectric Functional Materials, Xiamen Institute of Rare Earth Materials, Haixi Institutes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, P. R. China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China
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Tian Y, Wang H, Man Y, Zhang N, Zhang J, Li Y, Han C, Xu H. Weaving host matrices with intermolecular hydrogen bonds for high-efficiency white thermally activated delayed fluorescence. Chem Sci 2021; 12:14519-14530. [PMID: 34881003 PMCID: PMC8580069 DOI: 10.1039/d1sc04188f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2021] [Accepted: 10/07/2021] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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A thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) white organic light-emitting diode (WOLED) holds great promise for low-cost, large-scale lighting applications. Nevertheless, manipulating exciton allocation in a white TADF single layer is still a challenge. Herein, we demonstrate that the exciton kinetic process of dually doped white TADF films is strongly dependent on the grid regularity of the host matrix. Intermolecular hydrogen bonds (IHBs) are used to weave the matrices of two host molecules DPEQPO and DPSQPO featuring four phosphine oxide (PO) groups and different IHB orientations. The DPSQPO matrix forms regular grids to uniformly disperse and separate dopants, while DPEQPO exhibits chaotic IHBs, in turn inducing a heterogeneous dopant distribution. As a consequence, in both photoluminescence and electroluminescence processes, in contrast to DPEQPO hosted systems with comparable singlet Förster resonance energy transfer and triplet Dexter energy transfer, DPSQPO provides a FRET-predominant exciton allocation between blue and yellow dopants, which markedly suppresses triplet quenching and improves the white color purity, resulting in a state-of-the-art external quantum efficiency up to 24.2% of its single-emissive-layer pure-white TADF diode, in contrast to 16.0% for DPEQPO based analogs. These results indicate the significance of host engineering for exciton kinetics and suggest the feasibility of host grid design for developing high-performance TADF lighting. A thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) white organic light-emitting diode (WOLED) holds great promise for low-cost, large-scale lighting applications.![]()
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- Yuee Tian
- Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry, Ministry of Education & School of Chemistry and Material Science, Heilongjiang University 74 Xuefu Road Harbin 150080 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry, Ministry of Education & School of Chemistry and Material Science, Heilongjiang University 74 Xuefu Road Harbin 150080 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry, Ministry of Education & School of Chemistry and Material Science, Heilongjiang University 74 Xuefu Road Harbin 150080 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry, Ministry of Education & School of Chemistry and Material Science, Heilongjiang University 74 Xuefu Road Harbin 150080 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry, Ministry of Education & School of Chemistry and Material Science, Heilongjiang University 74 Xuefu Road Harbin 150080 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry, Ministry of Education & School of Chemistry and Material Science, Heilongjiang University 74 Xuefu Road Harbin 150080 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry, Ministry of Education & School of Chemistry and Material Science, Heilongjiang University 74 Xuefu Road Harbin 150080 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry, Ministry of Education & School of Chemistry and Material Science, Heilongjiang University 74 Xuefu Road Harbin 150080 P. R. China
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Wang YF, Li M, Teng JM, Zhou HY, Zhao WL, Chen CF. Chiral TADF-Active Polymers for High-Efficiency Circularly Polarized Organic Light-Emitting Diodes. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 60:23619-23624. [PMID: 34490710 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202110794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2021] [Revised: 08/27/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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A strategy of chiral donor-acceptor copolymerization is proposed to develop chiral nonconjugated polymers with thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF). Based on this strategy, two pairs of chiral polymers (R,R)-/(S,S)-pTpAcDPS and (R,R)-/(S,S)-pTpAcBP were synthesized. The alternating copolymerization of the chiral donors and acceptors could effectively separate the frontier molecular orbitals, which made the polymers show small ΔEST of 0.01-0.03 eV and efficient TADF properties. Moreover, the polymers also showed the quantum yield of up to 92 % and the circularly polarized luminescence. The solution-processed circularly polarized organic light-emitting diodes showed circularly polarized electroluminescence signals with high external quantum efficiencies of up to 22.1 % and maximum luminance of up to 34350 cd m-2 . This is the first report of CP-OLEDs based on chiral TADF polymer, which provides a useful and valuable guidance for the development of high-efficiency CPEL polymers.
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- Yin-Feng Wang
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Recognition and Function, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Recognition and Function, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Recognition and Function, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Recognition and Function, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Recognition and Function, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Recognition and Function, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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Chen XL, Tao XD, Wei Z, Meng L, Lin FL, Zhang DH, Jing YY, Lu CZ. Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Amorphous Molecular Materials for High-Performance Organic Light-Emitting Diodes. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2021; 13:46909-46918. [PMID: 34550667 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c12188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Small-molecule thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials have been extensively developed to actualize efficient organic LEDs (OLEDs). However, organic small molecules generally compromise thin film quality and stability due to the tendency of crystallization, aggregation, and phase separation, which hence degrade the efficiency and long-term stability of the OLEDs. Here, for the first time, we exploit the unique molecular configuration of the bimesitylene scaffold to design two highly efficient TADF amorphous molecular materials with excellent thermal and morphological stabilities. The twisted and rigid bimesitylene scaffold thwarts regular molecular packing and crystallization, thereby guaranteeing homogeneous and stable amorphous thin films. Meanwhile, the highly twisted geometry of the bimesitylene scaffold efficiently breaks the molecular conjugation and thus conserves the high energies of the lowest locally excited triplet states (3LE) above the lowest charge transfer states (1CT and 3CT), leading to small singlet-triplet energy splitting and fast reverse intersystem crossing. These TADF emitters exhibit high photoluminescence quantum yields of 0.90 and 0.69 and short TADF lifetimes of 4.94 and 1.44 μs in doped films, based on which the greenish-blue and greenish-yellow OLEDs achieve external quantum efficiencies of 23.2 and 16.2%, respectively, with small efficiency roll-off rates and perfect color stability.
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- Xu-Lin Chen
- CAS Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, China
- Xiamen Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Photoelectric Functional Materials, Xiamen Institute of Rare Earth Materials, Haixi Institutes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, Fujian 361021, P. R. China
- Fujian Science & Technology Innovation Laboratory for Optoelectronic Information of China, Fuzhou, Fujian 350108, P. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, China
- Xiamen Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Photoelectric Functional Materials, Xiamen Institute of Rare Earth Materials, Haixi Institutes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, Fujian 361021, P. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, China
- Xiamen Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Photoelectric Functional Materials, Xiamen Institute of Rare Earth Materials, Haixi Institutes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, Fujian 361021, P. R. China
- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province 350007, P. R. China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, China
- Xiamen Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Photoelectric Functional Materials, Xiamen Institute of Rare Earth Materials, Haixi Institutes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, Fujian 361021, P. R. China
- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province 350007, P. R. China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, China
- Xiamen Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Photoelectric Functional Materials, Xiamen Institute of Rare Earth Materials, Haixi Institutes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, Fujian 361021, P. R. China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, China
- Xiamen Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Photoelectric Functional Materials, Xiamen Institute of Rare Earth Materials, Haixi Institutes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, Fujian 361021, P. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, China
- Xiamen Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Photoelectric Functional Materials, Xiamen Institute of Rare Earth Materials, Haixi Institutes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, Fujian 361021, P. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, China
- Xiamen Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Photoelectric Functional Materials, Xiamen Institute of Rare Earth Materials, Haixi Institutes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, Fujian 361021, P. R. China
- Fujian Science & Technology Innovation Laboratory for Optoelectronic Information of China, Fuzhou, Fujian 350108, P. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Chiral TADF‐Active Polymers for High‐Efficiency Circularly Polarized Organic Light‐Emitting Diodes. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202110794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Gupta AK, Matulaitis T, Cordes DB, Slawin AM, Samuel ID, Zysman-Colman E. Highly twisted α-diketone-based thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters and their use in organic light-emitting diodes. CAN J CHEM 2021. [DOI: 10.1139/cjc-2021-0208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We have designed a highly twisted small thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitter PXZ-α-DK based on an α-diketone (α-DK) as a strong acceptor and phenoxazine (PXZ) as a strong donor to obtain red-shifted emission in comparison with the equivalent α-diketone linked to 9,9-dimethyl-9,10-dihydroacridine (DMAC). The PXZ-α-DK shows emission at 586 nm and DMAC-α-DK shows emission at 548 nm in 1,3-bis(N-carbazolyl)benzene (mCP) host at 1.5 wt% doping of the emitter, with short-delayed lifetimes of 6.9 μs for PXZ-α-DK and 7.6 μs for DMAC-α-DK. Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) fabricated using these emitters show green electroluminescence at 555 nm for DMAC-α-DK, with a maximum external quantum efficiency, EQEmax, of 6.3%, and orange electroluminescence at 585 nm for PXZ-α-DK, with an EQEmax of 0.8%. We corroborate the optoelectronic properties of these emitters with DFT calculations.
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- Abhishek Kumar Gupta
- Organic Semiconductor Centre, EaStCHEM School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, Fife KY16 9ST, UK
- Organic Semiconductor Centre, SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9SS, UK
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- Organic Semiconductor Centre, EaStCHEM School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, Fife KY16 9ST, UK
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- Organic Semiconductor Centre, EaStCHEM School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, Fife KY16 9ST, UK
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- Organic Semiconductor Centre, EaStCHEM School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, Fife KY16 9ST, UK
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- Organic Semiconductor Centre, SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9SS, UK
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- Organic Semiconductor Centre, EaStCHEM School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, Fife KY16 9ST, UK
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